✍🏾: @lexisryann
A Chicago police sergeant has been fired for his role in an unlawful 2019 raid at the home of a Black woman who was handcuffed while naked after police officers were sent to the wrong address.
The Chicago Police Board voted 5-3 Thursday to fire Sgt. Alex Wolinski for multiple rules violations in the raid at the apartment of Anjanette Young, according to a 31-page written ruling, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Young was getting ready for bed in February 2019 when several officers serving a no-knock warrant broke into her apartment on the West side of Chicago, looking for a man believed to have an illegal firearm.
Police body-cam footage of the raid shows the officers handcuffing Young, who was naked, as she repeatedly told them they were in the wrong place.
The city’s law department said Young was naked for 16 seconds, but the covering officers put on her kept falling off before she was allowed to get dressed several minutes later.
Young later sued the city over the raid, resulting in the Chicago City Council voting unanimously in December 2021 to pay her $2.9 million to settle her lawsuit. #BWLM💕
