Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot met the black woman who was handcuffed by the police while she was naked when police raided the wrong house, the two said in a joint statement.
Democratic Mayor and Anjanette Young met on Thursday for what they described in the statement as “a very long, very sincere and productive conversation about the unacceptable attack on Mrs. Young’s home and her pain”.
Young, a social worker, was inside her home in February 2019 when the police broke into the house, carrying out a search and seizure warrant for what turned out to be the wrong address. Young was not allowed to put on her clothes before the police handcuffed her and even after she said several times that they were in the wrong house, according to a video first released by WBBM-TV in Chicago.
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“We also discussed a series of systemic changes needed to resolve the mistakes made not only for Ms. Young, but also for other victims,” said Young and Lightfoot in the joint statement. “We both acknowledge that today’s conversation was just a step towards Mrs. Young’s healing.”
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The statement describes how Thursday’s meeting “was not a resolution to the problematic issues” that led to the February 2019 attack, but noted: “There could be no resolution without first engaging in substantive conversation”.
“We are both committed to continuing to identify areas of common ground related to these issues and working together for the necessary policy changes,” continues the statement.
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The pair had been scheduled to meet earlier this week for a closed-door conversation followed by a public forum, but Young, through lawyers, canceled the event after failing to agree on the terms of how to proceed.
Young’s lawyer said at the time that they still planned to sue the city.