Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot claimed last Tuesday that she had only learned this week about the February 2019 raid on the home of 50-year-old Anjanette Young. 'The first thing I knew of any of this was yesterday morning,' she said.
However, Lightfoot admitted last Thursday that emails with her staff showed she knew about the incident as far back as November 2019. She insisted she did not remember hearing of Young's case specifically and that she had not seen the bodycam footage until this past week when she said 'It was in November when I was probably focused on budget issues.'
Her administration went to federal court this past week and filed a motion – which was denied – to stop CBS Chicago from releasing the bodycam footage. Footage shows cops raid Young's apartment in February, cuffing the black social worker and leaving her standing naked in front of them. Young told GMA Friday she 'feared for her life' during the 40-minute ordeal and compared her experience to the police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
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