Anjanette Younger, who sued town after the 2019 raid, stated town council’s approval final month of the $4 million settlement has not modified her life and he or she’s nonetheless fighting what occurred to her.
Younger, a social employee, was preparing for mattress in February 2019 when a number of officers serving a search warrant stormed into her house and handcuffed her whereas she was bare.
Town’s legislation division stated Younger was bare for 16 seconds however the protecting officers placed on her stored falling off earlier than she was allowed to dress a number of minutes later.
Younger stated throughout an interview that aired on Friday on “CBS Mornings” that the officers ignored her, together with as she repeatedly instructed them they have been on the flawed tackle.
“What stands out to me probably the most is that I used to be invisible to them. As a result of nobody even responded to me, saying `Sure, you may get dressed later’ or `Allow us to end this’,” she stated within the interview.
“They simply completely ignored me whereas I’m standing there nude.”
The botched raid and town’s dealing with of it prompted anger from clergy, lawmakers and civil rights activists who decried it as racist and an affront to a Black girl’s dignity.
Although the incident occurred earlier than Mayor Lori Lightfoot took workplace in Could 2019, her administration later tried to dam the video from airing on tv and rejected Younger’s Freedom of Data request to acquire video of the incident.
Younger later obtained it by her lawsuit.
Lightfoot additionally got here underneath hearth for her response to the incident after emails revealed that she knew of the raid greater than a yr earlier than she stated she discovered about it in December 2020.
And earlier this month, town’s inspector common’s workplace in a quarterly report stated that its investigation “uncovered a troubling collection of unfounded statements” made by Lightfoot’s administration and others.
Younger stated her monetary settlement with town has not modified her life as a result of she’s all the time loved dwelling a easy life.
She added that, “I might have been extra happy if all 12 officers had acquired fired and I didn’t obtain a dime.”
She stated she feels validated that final yr Chicago’s police oversight company famous practically 100 allegations of misconduct by a couple of dozen officers following the botched raid.
And in a report launched in November, the Civilian Workplace of Police Accountability really helpful eight officers concerned within the raid be suspended or fired.
Younger stated Chicago police have “achieved this to different households, primarily within the Black and brown communities” and that what occurred to her doesn’t occur within the metropolis’s white communities.
She stated town’s police division wants adjustments.
“It’s validating for me that over the past three years I’ve been saying it, I’ve been saying that this isn’t proper,” she stated of COPA’s findings.
However, she stated, “There is not any sum of money that can proper this flawed.”