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beenz
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Some of these mexicans will fix their houses up. A few moved into my neighborhood into some messed up house. They hooked those hose homes up and im glad they're there.
I'm seeing a lot of this in englewood from mexicans.
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
The weather gods understood the assignment today
Chicago police sergeant fired for role in botched raid where Black woman was handcuffed nude
A Chicago police sergeant has been fired for his role in a botched 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 and...
Chicago police sergeant fired for role in botched raid where Black woman was handcuffed nude
FILE - Anjanette Young and supporters gather at Daley Plaza in Chicago after marching from Federal Plaza to commemorate the National Day of Protests on Oct. 22, 2021. A Chicago police sergeant has been fired for his role in a botched 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, June 15, 2023, to fire Sgt. Alex Wolinski for multiple rules violations and “failure of leadership" in the raid at the apartment of Anjanette Young, according to a 31-page written ruling, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)More
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Updated June 16, 2023·2 min read
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police sergeant has been fired for his role in a botched 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 and “failure of leadership" in the raid at the apartment of Anjanette Young, according to a 31-page written ruling, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Young, a social worker, was getting ready for bed in February 2019 when several officers serving a no-knock warrant stormed into her apartment on Chicago's Near West Side searching for a man believed to have an illegal gun.
Police body-camera footage of the raid showed that officers handcuffed Young, who was naked when police arrived, as she repeatedly told them that 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.
The botched raid and the city’s handling of it prompted anger from clergy, lawmakers and civil rights activists who decried it as racist and an affront to a Black woman’s dignity.
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.
Young said in a statement released Friday by her attorneys that Wolinski's firing is “only a small piece of the Justice for which I have been waiting.”
“While my heart goes out to his family because they now suffer the consequences of his abhorrent misconduct, I wish all eight members of the Chicago Police Board would have recognized the need and urgency for Sergeant Wolinski’s removal,” she added.
Then-police Superintendent David Brown brought administrative charges against Wolinski in November 2021, recommending that he be fired.
Wolinski, who had joined the Chicago Police Department in 2002, was accused of violating eight departmental rules, including inattention to duty, disobedience of an order and disrespect to or maltreatment of any person.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability also called for Wolinski’s firing and for suspensions for several other officers present during the raid, although to date no other officers have faced Police Board charges for the raid, the Chicago Tribune reported.
While the incident happened before former Mayor Lori Lightfoot took office in May 2019, her administration later tried to block the police video from airing on television and rejected Young’s Freedom of Information request to obtain video of the incident. Young later obtained it through her lawsuit.
beenz
Rap Guerilla
was just in my backyard. I definitely smell smoke out there.
Jesus H. Christ
I died for your sins
Breh the whole city polluted?
beenz
Rap Guerilla
man, our air looks HIDEOUS today 
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Canada dun fukked up our air smh
Kingshango
Veteran
Canadian smoke got the city looking like Silent Hill.
just touched down this morning and immediately thought 
goin with the air quality...it was hazy and had a tint to it...I'm out here for three weeks, so I hope it's not this bad the entire time...
goin with the air quality...it was hazy and had a tint to it...I'm out here for three weeks, so I hope it's not this bad the entire time...
beenz
Rap Guerilla
just touched down this morning and immediately thought
it just started a couple days ago. I anticipate it clearing up like it did in NYC.
ima have to rock a mask when i'm out until it clears up...i see why wearing a mask is nothing in places like china...couldn't imagine this, or worse, being the norm
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Oh we FLOODING flooding
White City Black
Ol’ Basquiat head ass
I had hella phone alerts and Citizen notifications earlier today regarding the flooding. Can’t wait to see the beautiful bean footage when I get home from work
Heavy rainfall, NASCAR, road closures and CTA fukkery…boooy this weekend is one for the books here in Chicago
Heavy rainfall, NASCAR, road closures and CTA fukkery…boooy this weekend is one for the books here in Chicago