{"id":717118,"date":"2026-04-10T02:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/717118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T02:30:17","slug":"anjanette-young-police-raid-victim-picked-to-join-chicago-police-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/717118\/","title":{"rendered":"Anjanette Young, police raid victim, picked to join Chicago police board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHICAGO (<a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:WGN;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;WGN&quot;}\" class=\"link \">WGN<\/a>) \u2014 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has chosen Anjanette Young to sit on an oversight board for the city\u2019s police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The update comes years after officers once handcuffed Young while she was naked, during a botched police raid in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The\u00a0footage was made public in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As a result of the botched raid, the city later paid\u00a0nearly $3\u00a0million to resolve a lawsuit Young filed against\u00a0the city of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/news\/chicago-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Read more: Latest Chicago news and headlines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Read more&quot;}\"> Read more: Latest Chicago news and headlines <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the selection still requires City Council approval. Young would serve on a board overseeing the Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) and the Chicago Police Board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WGN-TV.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WGN-TV.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WGN-TV. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WGN) \u2014 Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has chosen Anjanette Young to sit on an oversight board for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":717119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[295265,20174,960,24969,51500,5386,1818,298023,233787],"class_list":["post-717118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-anjanette-young","tag-brandon-johnson","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-mayor","tag-city-of-chicago","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-oversight-board","tag-police-raid"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116378063695113768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}