In February 2019, the Chicago Police Department carried out a raid on the wrong house.
The raid has recently come into the headlines after video was released and it was revealed that the inadvertent subject of the raid was naked, in the middle of changing her clothes when police barged in.
As it turns out, the true subject of the raid lived in the house next store.
She was naked when Chicago police raided her home, and the humiliation didn’t end when they busted through her door — the wrong door. The CBS 2 Investigators found the right guy, and it only took minutes.
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— CBS Chicago (@cbschicago) December 12, 2020
After the video came out, Lightfoot acted as though she knew nothing about the error, but we just found out that is not exactly true.
Actually, Lightfoot had been informed of the botched raid in November 2019.
Lightfoot, in walking back her original statement, said, “What I now know, having looked at some emails, is my team knew that this was an issue of great concern for me, ‘issues’ meaning about the search warrants.
“They knew that I had tasked our chief risk officer to look into this and to work on reforming the policy, so this [raid] was lifted up to me as yet another example.
“Again, I don’t have any specific recollection of it.
“It was in November [2019] when I was probably focused on budget issues and getting our budget passed through the City Council but it was flagged for me.”
You can read more about this report on Fox News.
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