Chicago City Council approves $2.9 million settlement with innocent woman handcuffed naked during wrongful police raid
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The Chicago City Council has approved a $2.9 million settlement with Anjanette Young, the woman who was handcuffed while naked when officers wrongfully raided her apartment. The council voted 48-0 on Wednesday to approve the settlement, according to CBS Chicago.
Prior to the vote, Alderman Jeanette Taylor said, "$2.9 million might seem like a lot, but it will never give Ms. Young back her dignity and respect, and the trust that she's lost."
On February 21, 2019, police incorrectly raided Young's apartment. The actual target of the raid lived next door and was wearing an electronic monitoring device that police should have been able to track, according to CBS Chicago. Young was changing her clothes when the raid occurred, and police immediately put her in handcuffs without allowing her to get dressed.
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