Black Chicago Woman Forced to Stand Naked Before 12 White Male Chicago Cops — Like It’s 1820 not 2020
By: Herb Dyer
Tags: White Privilege, Police, Police Brutality, BlackLivesMatter, Chicago

And If Chicago’s Black Female Mayor Didn’t Know, She Should’ve Known

Black Chicago beginning to wonder if we made a mistake. Image: lori lightfoot pictures — Bing images

If I had made the wrong move, I felt like they would have shot me.

— Anjanette Young

If this had been a white woman in Lincoln Park [the predominately white north side of the city], this would not have happened. — Attorney for Sistah Young

By now, the whole world has seen the full-frontal nudity of one Anjanette Young, a fifty-year-old black woman and Chicago social worker.

Sistah Young was essentially sexually assaulted in public by an entire phalanx of white male Chicago cops on a brisk early evening back in February 2019. You see, Chicago’s Finest used a battering ram to break through Sistah Young’s front door and then rushed in with guns (including automatic rifles) drawn, pointed — but thankfully this time, not blazing. They “caught” her in the threatening act of standing “buck naked” in the bedroom of her own apartment, as she prepared herself for bed and a well-deserved good night’s sleep. Her anticipated rest was overdue because this always-giving-to-others and “essential” social worker had not long returned home after a long and grueling shift of counseling distressed and downhearted, mostly black and brown people.

However and sadly, none of that mattered or entered into the CPD’s “thought processes,” calculations, determinations, “commonsense” observations as they proceeded to “serve,” to “enforce,” to “execute” a judge-approved warrant. That warrant gave them the unquestionable “right” to treat anybody and anyone anyway that they deemed necessary to effectuate that warrant.

Thus, they handcuffed Sistah Young’s hands behind her naked back and just above her naked behind, as they all — all of them — stomped about, ransacked and rummaged through every nook and cranny of her once tidy, even tony, apartment. For them, though, it was just another day at the office. Indeed, these cops performed this familiar and routine (to black people) exercise all while Sistah Young pleaded with them, at least 43 times, that they had the wrong address, that they had the wrong person.

Again, no matter….these young, white, male, Chicago cops perfunctorily went on about their business: the business of completely dehumanizing just another South Side nigger….and despoiling her most personal, her most precious family heirlooms, pictures, artifacts, furniture, etc. and so forth.

The problem is though, that the cops not only had the wrong house; they not only had the wrong address; they not only had the wrong person; but they had the wrong mindset as well.

The real problem is that none of that address stuff, that “probable cause” stuff, that excited utterances from the “perp”….none of that was of the slightest consequence to them; none of that caused them to pause or even look each other in the eye for the briefest of moments, seconds, and perhaps ask, assess and, God forbid, actually think about what they were doing and why. This was not one of those “split-second decisions” that cops are so wont to declare when they are caught doing wrong. These guys, their bosses, the prosecutors and the judge him- or herself — all had time and opportunity to get it right. But….

Well, you know the story.

You see, the guy they were looking for, a parolee who had been snitched on by some undisclosed informer as possessing guns and drugs, did live in Sistah Young’s apartment complex, but not in her apartment.

Oh, and this is the good part: Because the real “target” of the warrant was out on bail awaiting trial in a pending case, he was already under state, county, and city control, supervision, and surveillance. That is, this dude was wearing a government-issued ankle bracelet which informed all of these various and interconnected “authorities” and “law enforcers” of his precise whereabouts 24/7 — right down to whenever he sat on a toilet.

I will not belabor the cops’ actions here. The video speaks for itself. If you haven’t seen the video, here it is. Please take the children out of the room, for as they say, it is very “graphic.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J93jbFP95HE

How Lori Lightfoot Became Mayor of Chicago

The 2014 murder of LaQuan McDonald by a Chicago killer-cop was not revealed by the then Mayor Rahm Emanuel regime for over a year. Emanuel had had the dash- and bodycam of the 17-year-old’s murder, the falsified police reports of that murder, but he sat on all of that — until he was safely reelected the following year. Here’s a gruesome reminder of that killing. Again, cover the kids’ eyes:

Once the video of LaQuan’s murder was finally released, the black people of Chicago immediately demanded Emanuel’s resignation. It is important to understand that it was not even the mayor’s office (Rahm Emanuel’s) which eventually released the videotape, but an honest judge overseeing LaQuan’s family’s civil case against CPD.

Lori Lightfoot, herself a lawyer and head of the Emanuel’s own police oversight commission, saw an opening, a chance to make a real difference here. She ran in the primary election and beat a whole slew of would-be mayors, save the sitting Cook County Board President, one Toni Preckwinkle. She and Preckwinkle faced off in the general election, and, well…Toni (whom I campaigned with and for in her very first campaign for alderman 30 years ago) was totally embarrassed, losing the election for mayor by almost a two-to-one margin. That general election was in April. The Young incident had occurred in February. So, yes, the new Mayor had barely moved in her own office furniture before this Anjanette “situation” landed on her desk.

Yet, despite her full awareness and, yes, exploitation of the LaQuan McDonald matter, despite knowing how important, how outraged the black community was about that murder, and knowing that her election was due in large part to Emanuel’s callous mishandling of it, the new Mayor Lightfoot now claims that she was so busy with other things that the brutalization of Sistah Young somehow slipped through some very wide cracks.

Chicago Police: A History of Terror

I was born and raised 50 miles east across the big lake from Chicago in a, by comparison, little hamlet called Michigan City, Indiana. I’ve always had relatives and friends who lived and worked in Chicago. So, I’ve been a “virtual” Chicagoan since birth….right up until 1976 when I moved here permanently.

In all that time, in all of those years, I have never seen the cops behave as badly, as racist, as out-of-control as they have behaved over the last five years.

The name John Burge may not mean much to people who do not live in Chicago. I first became aware of this man in about 1980 when a couple of black guys were accused of killing a couple of Chicago cops. It was how the Wilson Brothers were treated — tortured — by Chicago’s Finest under the direction of John Burge, which opened my eyes to the reality of the constant threat that surrounded me each and every time I ventured forth into Chicago’s mean streets.

This is not the first time CPD has done this. Video: chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/12/16/anjanette-young-incident-fits-in-with-clear-and-distinct-pattern-of-wrong-police-raids/

From Sandra Bland to Breonna Taylor to Atianna Jefferson to Anjanette Young

Breonna Taylor, like Atianna Jefferson, of course, were murdered in their own homes, too —because of the eager and itchy trigger fingers of America’s Finest whenever they are “confronted” by black women getting ready for bed (Anjanette) or playing computer games with a young nephew (Atianna). Those murders, together with that of George Floyd’s (Minnesota) and Ahmaud Marquez Arbery in Georgia, touched off the latest “summer of discontent” among black people — the latest of 401 such summers.

This year we were, as always, telling cops and their legions of white supremacist supporters that we have finally had it with this shit. We are demanding not just a “Time Out.” But Time Over. The game, that is, the hunting, tagging and bagging of black people ends now.

Anjanette on the Auction Block

What happened to Atianna Jefferson, to Sistah Young, to Breonna Taylor, to Sandra Bland…to Baldwin’s “Many Thousands Gone,” is too, too reminiscent of the negro slave auction block whereupon negresses or wenches, broodstock, or mammies, little girls or teenagers, were forced to stand naked, often pregnant or with a suckling pickaninnie at their breast. They stood there, cowed, and cowering, for hundreds of years. They stood there before white men and white boys (and not a few white women and white girls) as they were poked and prodded, as their genitals were rubbed and massaged to elicit (and judge) a response, as their breasts and buttocks were examined, “inspected” and adjudged for their potential fecundity. Those who could not meet the bar for breeding would be relegated to field work or for the very fortunate, house “duties.” Many, especially the “pretty” ones, would be set aside to serve as “personal” concubines and sex slaves for the master or his male lieutenants, or as special “room service” treats for the occasional white male visitor from a neighboring or out-of-town plantation.

Finally, Mayor Lori Lightfoot insists that she did not know about this “incident” until this week. Okay. But why does her corporation (city) attorney who, apparently, kept these videos from her….why does that person still have a job?

If Mayor Lightfoot did not know about this because her appointees and staffers kept it from her, then who’s really running the City of Chicago?