A police sergeant in Chicago was fired more than four years after he went to the wrong address during a raid and handcuffed a terrified and nude Black woman inside her home.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Police Board ousted Sgt. Alex Wolinksi in a 5-3 vote on June 15.
Wolinksi was overseeing several officers from the Chicago Police Department when they mistakenly burst into the home of Anjanette Young in Chicago back in 2019 and handcuffed the social worker while she was undressed.
In the 31-page ruling, the Chicago Police Board voted that Wolinksi violated multiple departmental rules including “disrespect to or maltreatment of any person,” as well as a “failure of leadership.”
“Though it was clear that the officers were not at the residence of the intended target,” read the ruling. “Wolinski nonetheless allowed Ms. Young to remain naked and handcuffed for an extended period of time — over 10 minutes.”
Body camera footage of the CPD’s blunder captured several male police officers bursting into Young’s home with their guns drawn as the naked then 50-year-old was preparing for bed.
Young was handcuffed as she repeatedly told the men they were in the wrong place and that she lived alone. Ten minutes later, Young was allowed to get dressed after a female officer arrived on the scene and escorted her to her bedroom.
However, she was handcuffed again after getting dressed despite the officers realizing they’d raided the wrong residence.
The officers had obtained a search warrant for Young’s apartment based on a tip from an informant but failed to confirm the address was connected to their case. The actual suspect the CPD was looking for wore an electronic tracking device and was on house arrest. The 23-year-old man lived next door to Young, but they were not connected.
Young told the officers that they were in the wrong home some 43 times. A blanket was put over Young to cover…
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