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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot contradicted herself with conflicting statements regarding a police raid, according to Fox News.
Lightfoot said claimed that she hadn’t viewed video of the raid until this week.
Police officers used a battering ram to enter social worker Anjanette Young’s home with guns drawn.
The felon they were actually looking for lived next door.
Young was allegedly naked at the time of the raid and was in the middle of changing her clothes after returning home from work.
“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,” Lightfoot said Thursday, according to the station. “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,” she continued. “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.”
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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Lightfoot added Thursday that she was mistaken Wednesday when she claimed Young hadn’t filed a Freedom of Information Act request for police video footage from the raid, when Young actually had done so.
The mayor also said she apologized to a local reporter whom she had called “reckless and irresponsible” for asking her why the FOIA request had been denied, WBBM reported.
Lightfoot added that she has ordered a review of Young’s FOIA request to find out why it was rejected.
Young later gained access to the police footage as part of a federal lawsuit she filed against the city in November 2019 that was dismissed earlier this year, the Sun Times reported, adding that Young filed a new lawsuit this year in connection with the denial of her FOIA request.
The incident remains under investigation by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, according to the newspaper.