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BREAKING: Alderman Anthony Beale and Alderman Lopez proposes an order to immediately cease all no knock warrants. #EndRaids
City Council is breaking for five minutes while the chairman researchers procedure.
Alderwoman @RossanaFor33 is questioning the legitimacy of asking the law department for process clarity since they are directly implicated in the cover up of the attack in #AnjanetteYoung .
The law department says that today’s hearing does not allow for a vote. Alderman Beale is requesting independent counsel provide an opinion. Watch live: https://www.chicityclerk.com
The proposed order by Alderman Beale and Lopez institutes a 12 month moratorium and creation of a commission to report on all practices and to determine whether to discontinue no knock warrants, amend to federal standards which limit times CPD can raid. #EndRaids
Chairman Roderick Sawyer rejects the motion to address the proposal. Alderman Lopez is appealing the rejection and calls for a roll call vote. #EndRaids
City council is now arguing over knock vs no knock warrants and whether or not Anjanette Young had a no knock warrant. This is distraction and irrelevant. #EndRaids
They need to focus on CPD tactics--not overly technical intrepretations of what the warrant authorizes. #EndRaids
City Council voted and the Chairperson’s rejection stands, meaning the proposed order by Alders Beale and Lopez will not be included for discussion during today’s hearing. Now Chairman Taliaferro, a former cop, is leading the hearing discussion. #EndRaids #F12
In part why the argument of knock vs no knock is irrelevant is that the language in the warrant authorizes no knock tactics. Thereby rendering technical definitions of whether it was technically a no knock irrelevant. The raid itself was wrong. Period. #EndRaids
A representative from the Office of Inspector General, Deborah Witzburg who serves as Associate General Counsel, is now speaking to “bad” search warrants. #EndRaids
Superintendent Brown is now reading a PR created piece about CPD being committed to protecting the sanctity of life and that he has been loved by Black women... These prewritten statements are drafted by their public relations teams in effort to damage control. #EndRaids
This is distraction.
Superintendent says it is time to ban no knock warrants unless to save someone’s life. Again, technically #AnjanetteYoung’s raid was not “no knock”. The demand is to end ALL home raids, knock and no knock. #EndRaids
It is also important to not qualify the use of raids by saying a raid is acceptable if a persons life is in danger as CPD routinely uses this as reason to shoot and kill people by arguing that their own lives were in danger. #EndRaids
Natasha Cuyler Toller, assistant state’s attorney, is now explaining the process by which the State’s Attorneys office authorized search warrants. This reveals the multiple levels of City government that are involved in criminalization. #EndRaids
A COPA representative is now speaking as the chief administrative officer, Sydney Roberts and will provide update on the status of their investigation which is now 2 years old and includes the fact that they have not completed interviews of all of the cops involved. #EndRaids
Correction: It took COPA 9 months to open an investigation into the attack against #AnjanetteYoung therefore it has been 13 months since the investigation began, not two years.
As a reminder, Lori was the president of the police board and worked with COPA’s predecessor, IPRA, who notoriously failed to fire Dante Servin, the cop who killed Rekia Boyd, among other decisions to not hold CPD accountable. #EndRaids
The ecosystem by which the criminalization of Black, brown and poor people occurs and the corresponding impunity and cover up of CPD reveals an intricate system of multi departmental and municipal operations. #EndRaids
Alderman Matt Martin is now speaking about the problematic nature of CPD as an institutional problem within the City. He questioned why COPA hasn’t completed the investigation and why the law office denied #AnjanetteYoung’s FOIA request and then sanctioned her . #EndRaids
COPA responded by saying that neither CPD nor the City’s law department notified them about #AnjanetteYoung’s lawsuit. #EndRaids
They further stated they plan to sit down with CPD and the law department to ensure they are notified in a timely manner. None of that speaks to the fact that they haven’t concluded their investigation 13 months later. #EndRaids
