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Police eventually left the scene after confirming it was at the wrong address (Getty).
Authorities in the American city of Chicago face harsh criticism after the publication of a video recording that shows police handcuffing a naked black woman after a search of her home in a case related to an error in identification.
Police raided the black woman’s home on February 21, 2019, but the video was released recently.
Police camera footage shows police officers smashing through the door of Anjanet Young’s home and handcuffing the 50-year-old social worker while she was naked in the living room.
In the recording broadcast by “CBS2 Chicago”, the voice of the woman is heard shouting “What’s going on?”, Reiterating her statement, “What are you looking for?” And “you’re in the wrong house.” “Oh my gosh, this can’t be true” and “How is this legal?”
Young told Network TV that he had just returned from work and was undressing in his room when police stormed the scene. “It happened quickly, and I didn’t have time to put on my clothes … I was standing there terrified and humiliated,” she added.
Disturbing body camera footage reveals how Chicago police raided the wrong apartment in a 2019 raid and detained an innocent woman.
12 male officers entered Anjanette Young’s home and handcuffed her while she was naked.@cbschicagois @ davesavinicbs2 broke history. pic.twitter.com/eKproa2uKw
– CBS this morning (@CBSThisMorning) December 16, 2020
Police eventually left the scene after confirming he was at the wrong address. One of the officers apologized to Young while others tried to fix his broken door.
The same channel reported that police were looking for a suspect who resided in the same apartment complex where Young lives, and obtained the address from a reporter that turned out to be incorrect.
When asked if Chicago police admitted they were wrong in raiding Anjanette Young’s home, the Chicago Mayor says she cannot say with certainty that they have been confirmed wrong.
All of you 😒
– Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) December 16, 2020
Chicago Mayor Laurie Lightfoot told reporters she was “disgusted” after viewing the video and described the raid as a “catastrophic failure.”
“It could easily have been me,” added the African-American mayor, emphasizing that “we can improve our performance as a city.”
City attorneys tried to prevent the video from being released.
Young’s attorney, Kenan Salter, who filed a lawsuit with the police department, said a young white woman would not have faced the same treatment. He told CBS2 that cops “saw Young as inferior to humans.”
Observers compare Young’s case to the death of Briona Taylor, a young black woman who was shot and killed in Louisville, Kentucky, in March during a failed raid on her home.
Taylor’s name was chanted during protests against racial injustice this summer after the death of George Floyd, the black man who was killed by a white cop in Minneapolis last May.
(Brush from France)
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