Video of police arresting n@ked woman after raiding wrong home sees top lawyer resign

Video of police arresting n@ked woman after raiding wrong home sees top lawyer resign

Chicago Police were searching for a 23-year-old suspect allegedly in possession of a gun but failed to verify the address. Their target, in fact, lived next door to Anjanette Young

Bodycam footage of police arresting a woman in the nude after mistakenly raiding her home has led to the state’s top lawyer resigning.

The shocking video of black social worker Anjanette Young being handcuffed as she stood naked in her home in Chicago has sparked outrage across the US.

It shows a visibly distressed Ms Young asking: “What is going on?” moments after armed police storm her home.

She starts bursting into tears and tells officers a total of 43 times that they have the wrong house.

The city of Chicago’s top lawyer, Mark Flessner, has since resigned after his department attempted to block the video, taken in February 2019, from being aired by local television station WBBM-Channel 2.

I’m resigning because of the firestorm around the whole tape thing,” he told the Chicago Tribune. “I’m being accused of trying to hide it, which is not true.”

Officers were searching for a 23-year-old suspect who allegedly had a gun, but did not verify the address before conducting the search warrant.

The suspect they were searching for lived next door to Ms Young.

She claims, in a complaint she filed, that she was left with no clothes on for almost 45 minutes before a female Chicago Police Officer was called to help get her dressed.

In an emotional interview with CBS 2 Chicago, Ms Young said she “felt I could have died that night”.

“Like if I would have made one wrong move, it felt like they would have shot me,” she said. “I truly believe they would have shot me.”

A court forced Chicago police to turn over the footage after Ms Young filed a Freedom of Information Act request for it to be made public as part of her lawsuit against the department.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot apologized to her during a press conference last week.

“I am deeply sorry and troubled that her home was invaded and that she had to face the humiliation and trauma that she suffered,” she said. “That is just not right.

“It simply should not have happened. And I will make sure that there is full accountability for what took place.”

“Filing a motion against a media outlet to prevent something from being published is something that should rarely, if ever, happen. This is not how we operate.

“And had I been advised that this was in the works, I would have stopped it in its tracks. This is not how we operate. Period.”