Recently released bodycam footage reveals Chicago Police Department officers storming into the home of a Black woman and restraining her while she is naked, only to eventually realize they were in the incorrect house.
The woman, Anjanette Young, regularly pleads with the officers, telling them they are in the wrong house. The officers persist there, watch her cry, and casually throw a blanket on her, leaving her front side shown.
Young, a social worker, reportedly just returned home from her shift and took off her clothes in her bedroom. That’s when the officers entered her home.
The officers declared themselves and yelled “search warrant” as well as “hands up.” Young can be seen in shock, naked, and her hands up.
She later said she stood there humiliated and terrified, confused about what was happening.
In the footage, she cries and pleads, asking the officers what is going on. The officers arrest her by placing her in handcuffs, without covering her or responding to her.
“They were yelling at me, ‘put your hands up,’” she recalled in an interview with CBS Chicago. “I just remember being so afraid. I could’ve died that night. If I’d made one wrong move they would have shot me.”
The video shows officers searching the property as at least one officer stood guard by her, ignoring her pleas and questions.
Finally, one officer gets a blanket to cover her, and she’s heard frantically crying, “My name is Anjanette Young. What is going on?” The blanket keeps sliding off of her, and she is not able to adjust it because she is detained.
“You need to tell me what you’re looking for?” she tearfully asks them.
One officer can finally be seen explaining what’s going on to her. When she says she’s been living in the house for four years, an officer says, “OK. You don’t have to shout.”
According to CBS Chicago, police were acting on a wrong tip when they went into Young’s house: They were looking for a 23-year-old felon, who an informant claimed was in possession of a gun and ammunition.
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