UPDATE JAN 27, 2022 COURT ORDER CHICAGO NEEDS MILITARY SUPPORT Question to Senator Cruz, ABC President Kim Godwin and Roland Martin  

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•  He said this to CNN Chandelis Duster on Monday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz called President Joe Biden's commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court "offensive" and said that by doing so the President is telling other Americans "you are ineligible."

  "The fact that he's willing to make a promise at the outset, that it must be a Black woman, I gotta say that's offensive. You know, you know Black women are what, 6% of the US population? He's saying to 94% of Americans, 'I don't give a damn about you, you are ineligible'," Cruz said on an episode of his podcast "Verdict with Ted Cruz" that was released on Sunday. In 2019, Black women represented 7% of the US population, according to the US Census Bureau.

  The Republican continued, "And he's also saying -- it's actually an insult to Black women. If he came and said, 'I'm gonna put the best jurist on the court and he looked at a number of people and he ended up nominating a Black woman, he could credibly say, 'OK I'm nominating the person who's most qualified.' He's not even pretending to say that he he's saying, 'If you're a White guy, tough luck. If you're a White woman, tough luck. You don't qualify.'"

• Senator Ted Cruz can make an egregious statement calling President's Joe Biden's nomination of a woman of color (Black) to the Supreme Court of the United States offensive ok Senator if you believe that the best jurists are on the benches in the United States answer this:

• Why are jurists in the Seventh Circuit who are supposed to represent "the most qualified" have admitted to and has corroborated in taken part in HATE CRIMES against women and men of color and they are on record not supporting or adhering to any laws of the United States Supreme Court or laws of the United States Constitution? 

• The Republicans are intertwined with Democrats enforcing JIM CROW LAWS in the FEDERAL COURT so perhaps a woman of color can help bring harmony and intellect with the others because the court lacks a female perspective coming from a Black woman, now let me ask you Senator Cruz is it offensive to have jurists in the Seventh Circuit to have engaged in crimes outdated by the United Supreme Court or are still going to try to justify nominating a Black woman to the United States Supreme Court Offensive?

•  ABC News suspended “The View” host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she said the Holocaust was not about race, the network said Tuesday.

  In a statement, Kim Godwin, president of ABC News, called Goldberg’s comments “wrong and hurtful.”

  “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments,” Godwin said. “The entire ABC News organization stand in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”

• My question here is to ABC News President Kim Godwin, I am very confused if Whoopi apologized for making any remarks offensive why was she suspended for 2 weeks?

• We have racist Federal judges of the Jewish persuasion who act as if they are the prototypes of Hitler and is using his racist hateful disposition to oppress and violate the CIVIL RIGHTS of other women of color as others in the Jewish persuasion sit back and kept their mouths shut, nobody admonished this judge or any of his brethren in these diabolical hate crimes, so was Whoopi really suspended because of the color of her skin?

• Take a real good look at this case in how racial hate plays out if a Black woman dare speak up or have an earnest disposition she is immediately invalidated or suppressed to oblivion as many are trying to cover-up the unlawful acts of Jewish and Ku Klux Klansman judges, but nobody is talking about this.

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• My 3rd and final question is to Sir Roland Martin can you explain to me how is it that Jason Van Dyke shot and killed Laquan McDonald 16 times but, Van Dyke is set to be released Feb. 3, having served three years, three months and nine days of the 81-month sentence handed down after his 2018 conviction for second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery — one for each bullet he fired at the 17-year-old.

• My other question Roland is how is it a Nigerian immigrant who graduated from Depaul Law School, the same Law School Indicted Alderman Edward Burke graduated from who never killed anyone, never stole or carjacked anyone be treated as a FELON by having his law license permanently removed? Just recently he received a court order from the Illinois Supreme Court Jan 18, 2022 denying his Writ of Certiorari reinstating his law license because he as a man rightfully defended his clients reporting the corrupt judges in Cook County, how is it a white man can gun down a teenager spend basically 3 years in jail for murder but a man who committed no crime be denied practicing law where he honorably earned and paid for his education?

  ’Lanre O. Amu, B.C.E. (U of MN,’84, Graduated at the top of the Engineering Class with High Distinction); M.S.C.E (U of MN, ‘85); M.B.A. (UIC,’89), J.D. (1995). Beyond Qualifications, Integrity, Honesty, Transparency and Accountability must Reign Supreme in Our Courts. Those Are the Real Issues Here, Not Educational Qualifications Per Se.

• Mr. ‘Lanre Amu is no Less Educated, No Less Ethical, No Less Honest, No Less Moral Than The 7 Justices Sitting in Judgment of Him:

• Mr. Lanre Amu, Esq., had his license to practice law in Illinois suspended because he filed grievances against 4 judges over the course of 9-years. As is customary with “lawyer-whistleblowers” his license was suspended by the Illinois Supreme Court. There were no grievances filed against Mr. Amu by any person, lawyer, or even the judges subject of his grievances, there were no witnesses at the hearing. Mr. Amu was the ONLY witness at the Hearing. yet the Illinois Supreme Court suspended his law license — JUST BECAUSE!

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• This is the recent court order from the court racism and hate has become so vile in the United States and in the courts these individuals are blatant in their hostile racist acts against persons of color, and they don't fear any authority especially any person of color with any authority.

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  Joe Louis <joelouis565@yahoo.com>

  To:Kenneth Ditkowsky,Lanre Amu Railroaded by ARDC,Dr. Richard Cordero

  Cc:The New York Times,Cook County States Attorney,Clerk of Circuit Court Brown,iteam@abc.com,Department of Justice

  Wed, Jan 26 at 9:02 AM

  Professor Ken, Dr. Cordero and other distinguished scholars:

  
  

  Are you aware that Chicago's legal system is governed and operated by members of the Fraternal Order Ku Klux Klan and Negroes identified as African Americans who are the modern-day slaves, that many racist Anglo-Saxons mistake these inferior beings as if all Colored People are of the same mental fabric in the Political Machine?

  
  

  Negroes some call them all sorts of names e.g. Uncle Tom, House Niggers etc. it is the very individuals who have ascended to power off of the Colored votes many of these individuals act like they are from a Mississippi or Alabama Red Neck Plantation and the Anglo-Saxons controlling the Political Machine actually act and think they are Slave Masters, and this city is there Plantation.

  
  

  Here is the PINK ELEPHANT in the room, all Black People don't embrace or love all Colored People and it is those very Black People who loves and would kiss the Asses of the most hateful Diabolical Anglo-Saxons in the Political Machine so as to ascend to power or seek acceptance by these oppressors, they are voiceless and not in a position to think for themselves or make decisions credible to make living conditions better for all people.

  
  

  FACT: No Black or Brown attorney licensed in the State of Illinois have authority to ridicule or admonish the legal system or it's judges unless you are an outsider, my Brother Lanre Amu could explain this to everyone better than, I could detail it as a Nigerian immigrant, who migrated to the United States graduated from De Paul Law School with academics surpassing every Caucasian, that ever-attended DePaul along with an engineering degree, had his Law License suspended from the very men, that is being described in this email Supreme Court judge Charles Freeman who was my lodge Brother in Prince Hall Jachin Lodge #133.

  
  

  Brother Amu as a Man opened up his mouth and spoke up and out about corrupt judges "FIXING" cases against his clients, he was not wrong, but nobody told him about the corrupt Racist Nigger type politics that ran and governed the Illinois Courts.   

  
  

  I had the pleasure of learning early in my lodge as a Past Tyler, that a lot of older men like Freeman saw the Caucasian Man as a White God, I would get into heated altercations with some of the men because they felt this was a White man's world and no matter how much education you have, they felt the white man was not going to let you succeed in any of your endeavors, these very men had families and if an Anglo-Saxon wanted a Blow Job or any sexual favor from them they obliged them.

  
  

  I had lodge Brothers as old as some of the men who never believed things had reminded them that it was the young Brothers like myself who were going to make a change in society and show those days are over and that the men who still think that way is dead men walking waiting for the dirt to be placed on them.

  
  

  Willie B. Evans was a Lieutenant on the Police Force and in my Lodge, I told him that I was dating a woman who implied her father had impregnated her little sister and was basically having his way with her she was afraid of him and didn't know what to do, and I told him that, I was going to beat his Ass, he was not really surprised of the incest, (this must be a norm by certain Police Officers in Chicago raping their children) he asked me his name, I said William Jenkins Hightower, his immediate reply, oh no don't do that, they are going to think, I was fighting the whole Police Force, I never quite understood what he meant, but the consensus was a lot of Policemen from other lodges who learned of my plight, did not know he was back on the force because, he was removed from the Police force but reinstated his daughter turned him in.

  
  

  There were certain Brothers on the force who only feared God wanted me to give their name as my uncles, when I went to internal affairs to file charges against him again, when I went to file a complaint at internal affairs the white officer seemed to have been steering my complaint as if other cops were putting up to this and, I was not comfortable saying nobody's name and my Brother's seemed a little upset with me but my spirit didn't allow me implicate good men in what seemed like some shit going way sour, so her father left the Police Force in 1988 and went the Police force in Dade Florida.    

  
  

  As, I digress it appears Chicago is definitely not a place for God fearing loving families, if there was a Heaven or Hell Chicago is definitely on Hell's list.

  
  

  Superintendent David Brown mentioned in a news article, that there were Police officers disgruntled at how he was managing the personnel and they were complaining to the media because those men didn't want to embrace change, there are a lot of people including Blacks like being House Niggers, the whipping Boy or Girl for the white man.  

  
  

  Racism and Niggercism works synonymously with one another a Nigger Black will not address any of the issues noted in this email who has the authority or power because in actuality they are only "FIGUREHEADS" a RACIST ANGLO-SAXON do what they do in covering-up shit and call on their inferior "House Niggers" to try and clean up their mess.

  
  

  If it looks walks like a Duck, quacks like a Duck, then it must be a Duck, well check out how the lowest form of racist men and women work together covering up for each other and Black and Brown Negroes beholding to the Political Machine are Politically ENSLAVED going along to get along, the Black and Brown Politicians are not even FREE in America.

  
  

  MOTION TO CLARIFY WHY APPELLANT IS BEING DIRECTED TO PRESENT A BRIEF WHEN FEDERAL JUDGES HAVE CORROBORATED AND ADMITTED TO BEING COMPLICIT IN SAID TERRORIST CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AGAINST THE APPELLANT & NOT HAVING JURISDICTION & IGNORING TRANSFERRING THIS MATTER TO ANOTHER CIRCUIT PURSUANT TO RULE 26 PURSUANT TO THE BREYERS COMMITTEE REPORT, 239 F.R.D. AT 214-15. COURT ORDER BEING A NULLITY

  
  

  Chicago is not what Jean Baptiste Point DuSable ever imagined his city to have turned out to be babies, generations are subjected to genocide because some of the most egregious racist hateful men ascended to power through violence, corruption vile politics and for what? Not one Black or Brown Person is any FREEER than their colleagues.

   

  When you finish reading this document nobody will have any problems identifying all of the Niggers and Racist White Niggers, so everyone can come out of the closet.

  
  

  Your thoughts Professor Ken?     

  
  

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  Marcia Johnson <frogishtwo65@gmail.com>	Tue, Jan 25, 10:50 AM (20 hours ago)
  to courtclerk, ccc.mfmlcalendar12, chicagodocket, asriratana, rperdew, timothy.evans, simon.feng, press, Poulami, pamela.cummings, ccc, cbonjean, JSC_General, CLEARPATH

  Here is a MOTION TO CLARIFY WHY APPELLANT IS BEING DIRECTED TO PRESENT A BRIEF WHEN FEDERAL JUDGES HAVE CORROBORATED AND ADMITTED TO BEING COMPLICIT IN SAID TERRORIST CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE AND OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AGAINST THE APPELLANT & NOT HAVING JURISDICTION & IGNORING TRANSFERRING THIS MATTER TO ANOTHER CIRCUIT PURSUANT TO RULE 26 PURSUANT TO THE BREYERS COMMITTEE REPORT, 239 F.R.D. AT 214-15. COURT ORDER BEING  A NULLITY

  
  

  As a Retired Police I want the persons responsible for ordering someone to BREAK into our home thinking we would be intimidated and run and hide, bring your ASSES back and try doing it again.

  
  

  I have never imagined or experienced any type of racism being experienced trying to keep our home as a Police Officer working in the streets.

  
  

  I didn't just become a senior citizen this shit has been going on for 14 years while working on the force it is amazing the shit that has been allowed for so many years people sitting back in authority and watching people steal their homes cars and not say anything as long as the right people are paid off.

  
  

  Marcia Johnson

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l_4p5voAYkTA3CVHE68KczDAHxfiA11M/view?usp=sharing

 

US BANK & OTHERS ACTING AS DOMESTIC TERRORIST HAD SOMEONE TO BREAK INTO THE HOME OF A RETIRED POLICE OFFICER AND RETIRED CPS EDUCATOR FEDERAL JUDGES CLOSED THEIR EYES TO A PLETHORA OF CRIMINAL ACTS AIDED AND ASSISTED A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE FEINERMAN IN TRYING TO COVER-UP OTHER FEDERAL CRIMES, HELPING US BANK STEAL HOMES IN ILLEGAL FORECLOSURES.

To:3d@mail.americanbar.org,whistleblower@cfpb.gov,legalabuse@gmail.com,3128145719@myfax.com,aging@americanbar.org

Cc:Whistleblower (Judiciary-Rep),Mary Wisniewski (Chief Judge's Office),Chicago FBI,J. Ditkowsky clara,janet_c_phelan@yahoo.com

Tue, Jan 18 at 8:42 PM

Attention Professor Ken and Dr. Richard Codero:

I have been following you gentleman's passion speaking up against Corruption, Injustice Elder Abuse, Extortion, Terrorism etc. the list is endless as to what judges have been allowed to do without any repercussions.

I have taken your advice Dr. Cordero and emailed every person featured in your emails and has blogged a lot of information on my Blog unlawful1.blogspot.com which has surpassed 84 countries.

One of the Johnson sisters noted in this email shared to me yesterday that when Father Pleger was a little boy living in Marquette Park, he witnessed his friends and neighbors pelting rocks at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as he marched through Marquette Park, that is what inspired the man he is today fighting racism and injustice.

What many people fail to realize is that even though many Black and Brown persons may not be enslaved physically with chains on their bodies, they are and have accepted being mentally enslaved and don't want nothing more than to servants for the Political Machine acting as Modern Day House Niggers while there is a consensus of so many other ethnic groups speaking up for Black Lives matter, take note the following Part 1 and 2 is a Response to Petition for Rule to Show Cause for Appellant explaining why her case should not be Dismissed for failing to file a brief.

Just about every judge in the Seventh Circuit HATE Black and Brown people to the point many have a fixation into believing all Black and Brown people are like the ones they control in the Political Machine who happens to be voiceless, spineless and cowards when it comes to opening up their mouths admonishing any person who happens to be racist.

As many of you know looking at the media and reading any news article there are so many inferior Negroes who hate the color of their skin and sexuality, they will kill destroy any person who remotely share their skin color and as a matter of fact you are going to find that the Black judges or Politicians are the worse persons any person of color can appeal to for any assistance because they have to prove to their white masters in the Political Machine how loyal they are willing to be to destroy any colored person fighting to avail themselves of any racial injustice or corruption.

Everything that Dr Martin Luther King stood and fought for, for all minorities to have an equal opportunity at any endeavor we may be pursuing and not be judges because of the color of our skin but on the merits of our performance and integrity has been diminished to smithereens because so many of our present Black leaders have sold us out by accepting the choice of closing their eyes and ears to deplorable racist Civil Rights Violations perpetrated on their own ethnic groups protecting the very racist sub humans who are only in the positions of power as judges, politicians because many had money and magnificent corrupt political influence and paid off the right alderman to wear a robe not because they were intelligent or a zest to be public servants, but an opportunity to use the position to vent hate, harm violence of numerous proportions in exterminating the colored race by any means necessary.

If any man or woman in a position of authority hate who they are or their sexuality cannot effectively serve an entire community because whoever holds power will use it to oppress, ignore any class of citizens not of the race, sexuality or Political Position that person in authority may control.

NOW COMES the Appellant, Monzella Y. Johnson (Plaintiff), hereby respectfully Moves this court with corroboration, affidavits, unimpeached Summary Judgments from all law firms associated in this matter where court transcripts have been provided with prior Motion for Reconsideration due to “Fraud” & Misrepresentations to the court with all attachments {Pursuant to Fed Rules of Civil Procedures} Demonstrating why said Appeal should not be dismissed.:

 

BECAUSE THE JUDGES CLOSED THEIR EYES AND WERE COMPLICIT IN THE TERRORIST CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE OF US BANK AND OTHER TERRORIST OPERATIVES IN THIS MATTER STEALING HOMES IN ILLEGAL FORECLOSURES ARE NOW CO-CONSPIRATORS, under the authority of the Appellees while Appellant’s were vacationing outside of Illinois, they Broke into Appellant’s home and changed their locks destroying the back door and because so many judges are complicit in these criminal acts, they brazenly left a NOTICE ON THE DOOR, THIS IS NOT A NOTICE OF EVICTION, RENTAL OR SALE, left their broken locks all on the back porch, the Police was dispatched to their home when they returned from vacation, Jan 22, 2022 R.D. Number JF111431 and video captured the Anglo-Saxon wearing an Irish skull cap 

                                                                               

1.)   That said judges ignored the fact the Appellees admitted every assertion/pleading recorded by the Appellant in their Jurisdictional Statement and was in fact served, History of Case 21-cv- 02707 Doc 7 “SUMMONS RETURNED EXECUTED” 5/24/2021.

 

2.)  The Law Center 79 West Monroe sent Appellant FORECLOSURE DEFENSE NOTIFICATION, detailing a plethora of unenforceable defects, that Federal Judges closed their eyes to in all of Appellant’s legal documents, due to their skin color..

The aforementioned are actual pleadings taken from Page 2 of the document not one Judge or Negroe in the Political Machine want anyone to read the following information because it demonstrates not only that the legal system is controlled by members of the Ku Klux Klan but further amplifies that the present breed of Negroes in authority hate Black and Brown people.

Let me add as a Heterosexual Man Born & Raised a FREEMAN, I voted for Lesbian Mayor Lori Lightfoot because of her campaign speech, but little did, I know her speech was a mere gimmick to solicit votes because she has been NOTICED several times about the plight and injustices of these senior citizen females retired Police Officer and retired Educator from the Chicago Public School system, she never opened her mouth to show concern or questioned, the concerns of these women of color.

I even Noticed her several times regarding the Bogus Paternity case 88 D 079012 Francoise L.B. Hightower v. Joe Louis Lawrence, my presumption was that she never replied to me because of my Heterosexual Masculine disposition standing up to the Political Machine who controls her and every other Black or Brown person within the Political Party.

This is from Page 5,   

A Black Mayor (female) Lori Lightfoot a member of the Political Machine did not immediately speak up and defend Anjanette Young due to her ethnicity as a woman of color--- “The findings are damning and continue to prove how individuals across CPD, the mayor’s office and COPA worked to cover up the video and minimized what happened, by failing to report it and also by issuing blanket denials of the video”---so the most egregious Hateful Racist men and women in the District Court and Court of Appeals are doing the same thing by covering up and protecting every individual likened to being members of the Ku Klux Klan or Nazi Fraternal Order and none of them respect any Black or Brown Official in authority because of what so many have done to their own ethnicity by closing their eyes, mouth to the very crimes where they should have spoke up years ago and never said anything, but during elections they are all in Black and Brown churches soliciting their votes. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Now Professor Ken and Dr. Cordero when you finish reading both parts of the Response to the Rule to Show Cause explaining why the case should not be Dismissed can you explain to me how in the hell can any United States Citizen Elderly, or of color receive justice when our judicial system is controlled by Domestic Terrorist? and most of the Blacks in authority are mere figureheads with no real power?

   

      

Part 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KIp4k0H8gQfvd741yxv2ytYa2sIaabZ5/view?usp=drivesdk

Part 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gg7kHjq_S6CqcMPc2Y4uYXB51ms3P2jl/view?usp=drivesdk

 

Inspector General’s Report On Botched Anjanette Young Raid Finds City’s Response Was ‘Exceedingly Harmful To Young’

By CBS 2 Chicago Staff

CBS Chicago

 1 day ago

By Dave Savini , Dana Kozlov , Samah Assad, Michele Youngerman, and Todd Feurer

CHICAGO (CBS) — The city’s top watchdog has released a blistering report about how the city handled the aftermath of the botched police raid on Anjanette Young’s home, detailing the extent of misconduct carried out by multiple city agencies, including Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office, Chicago Police Department, and the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.

The findings come one month after the City Council approved a $2.9 million settlement with Young, the innocent social worker who was handcuffed naked during the wrongful police raid nearly three years ago.

As part of its latest quarterly report, the city’s Office of Inspector General included a summary report of its investigation into the city’s response to the raid. The findings are damning and continue to prove how individuals across CPD, the mayor’s office and COPA worked to cover up the video and minimized what happened, by failing to report it and issuing blanket denials of the video.

The inspector general’s office completed its review of the case in October and provided its full 163-page report to the mayor’s office, CPD, COPA, and the Law Department, but Lightfoot has not committed to releasing the full report, despite promises of transparency.

A summary of that report released Friday says the “inefficient and wasteful management fell into three categories: false or unfounded statements; disregard for COPA’s role and independence; and unbecoming conduct by [Law Department] personnel.”

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The inspector general’s office reviewed thousands of emails as part of its probe, and conducted three dozen interviews with city employees.

The report does not include any recommendations for disciplinary action against city employees. However, the inspector general’s office said that is due in part to the fact that 20 of the employees in question have already resigned or been forced out. The report also noted Lightfoot’s decision to enlist an outside law firm – Jones Day – to conduct a separate review of the Young case. Jones Day’s investigation found Lightfoot did not purposely conceal information about the Young case, but the inspector general’s office said that probe hampered its own investigation of the city’s response to the raid.

According to the inspector general’s report, most of the people interviewed by the its office also were questioned by Jones Day, and city attorneys objected to any questions regarding the content of the interviews with Jones Day. The law firm also rejected the OIG’s request for information and documents generated by their review of the case, claiming attorney-client privilege with the city.

“In addition to raising transparency concerns, this also prevented OIG from assessing the full nature, scope, and effect of the Jones Day investigation. Faced with the legally insurmountable obstacle of attorney-client privilege, OIG could not examine the parallel evidence and interview reports of the same witnesses who spoke with OIG, could not determine whether undisclosed interviews corroborated or contradicted one another, and could not investigate whether Jones Day adduced additional mitigating or aggravating information separate from the evidence collected by OIG,” the report stated.

Given those complications, the inspector general’s office said it wouldn’t be fair to make any disciplinary findings in the case.

“Ultimately, OIG determined that the most appropriate service to provide to the City was the full story—thoroughly documented and sourced—of how the City’s government worked to prevent a victim of what was plainly either official misconduct or error from obtaining video proof of the raid on her home, thereby frustrating her efforts to secure redress for the injuries inflicted on her, however unintentionally, by government actors,” the report stated. “OIG’s investigation revealed a failure of City government that, taken as a whole, adds up to more than a sequence of individual actions by City employees. Many of the Mayor’s Office, COPA, CPD, and DOL employees OIG interviewed played roles in a series of events that violated proper government practices, if not formal policies, and which were exceedingly harmful to Young.”

The inspector general’s report focused entirely on the city’s response to the botched raid, rather than the raid itself, which was investigated by COPA. Multiple officers are facing potential termination or suspension for their roles.

As for the city’s response to the raid, the inspector general’s office said it “uncovered a troubling series of unfounded statements, internal and external disregard for the role and independence of COPA, and a [Department of Law] team whose approach to the case led to conduct unbecoming in the form of disrespectful treatment of opposing counsel and the plaintiff.”

“City government failed to appropriately respond to a victim of a CPD wrong raid, failed to act with transparency in City operations, and performed a series of governmental actions in a manner that prioritized communications and public relations concerns over the higher mission of City government,” the report stated. “OIG’s investigation revealed the inefficient and wasteful management of the City’s response to a wrong raid. The investigation found that actions taken by current and former City employees implicated numerous rules of conduct and took place within a larger failure of the City’s administrative systems to respond to Young’s wrong raid and subsequent requests for information.”

For example, the report said that a member of the mayor’s press team falsely suggested COPA’s investigation of the raid was opened when Young filed a lawsuit against the city in August 2019, when in fact the agency did not begin investigating the case until three months later.

That assistant press secretary also “feigned ignorance over whether the open COPA case would have any effect” on the city’s response to Young’s FOIA request for body camera video footage of the raid.

“While the assistant press secretary was not legally required to tell the truth to or avoid misleading reporters, their conduct demonstrated a willingness to allow and encourage false narratives to enter the public sphere and an apparent intent to mislead a reporter inquiring about a story of significant public interest,” the report stated.

After Young filed her lawsuit over the raid, the city’s Law Department asked CPD for body camera footage of the raid, but CPD’s legal affairs office never fulfilled that request. Instead, an assistant corporation counsel sent a CPD member detailed to the Law Department to retrieve the footage, retrieving 14 videos.

The report said, while that procedure was not standard protocol, the assistant corporation counsel said they did it because their supervisor “came to my office and said the Mayor’s Office is freaking out about this case, why don’t we have a video.”

When a judge later ordered the city to turn over the forage to Young’s attorney in February 2020, the law department turned over those 14 videos on a flash drive, but the Law Department didn’t first conduct a sufficient search or follow up to ensure it had acquired all body camera footage of the raid, despite a judge’s order to do so. The city later turned over six additional videos that were discovered after CBS 2 first noticed some were missing.

The report also noted that Lightfoot herself made misleading statements about what she knew about the raid. It states the mayor took part in a November 2019 conference call with senior staff, during which employees “compiled a list of the Mayor’s detailed questions.”

But in December 2020, when Lightfoot first apologized to Young for the raid, the mayor said she had only recently been informed of the case even though the raid itself happened in February 2019, and CBS 2 first began reporting on her case in November 2019.

However, a day after that apology, Lightfoot admitted that her staff informed her that Young’s case and other wrong raids were brought to her attention in November of 2019 . However, she said she didn’t have any recollection of that briefing.

“Regardless of whether the Mayor recalled these conversations or information, the release of a public and declarative denial of any prior knowledge of the Young raid by the Mayor’s press office lacked the appropriate due diligence and fact-checking, and created an incomplete and inaccurate depiction to the public and the media of the City’s prior discussions of the wrong raid,” the report stated.

The report also found that several senior officials at CPD failed to promptly inform COPA of the botched raid, even after a CPD commander who spoke to Young’s pastor informed them about it.

“As leaders of CPD—and as some of the first City officials besides the participating CPD members to learn of the raid—the failure of CPD senior officials to report or ensure the reporting of the wrong raid for investigation implicated the CPD rules and regulations requiring members to ‘report promptly’ to COPA such actions, and to ‘report … any other improper conduct,’ and therefore likewise implicates a ‘failure to promote the Department’s efforts to … accomplish its goals.’

Likewise, the report found that several employees of the Law Department and the Mayor’s office who were informed about the botched raid notified COPA about the incident until one of the mayor’s assistant press secretaries reached out to COPA’s spokesperson to ask about Young as part of the response to Young’s and CBS 2’s FOIA requests for body camera footage.

As the CBS 2 Investigators have previously reported, COPA did not open an investigation into Young’s case until nine months after the raid , after CBS 2 first broke the story.

According to the report, COPA’s top attorney tasked a paralegal with overseeing the response to the FOIA request, and instructed them to tell CPD to issue blanket denials, claiming releasing the videos would interfere with COPA proceedings, even though the paralegal had not consulted anyone involved in the case, and had no idea if releasing the videos would actually interfere with the investigation.

“OIG determined that COPA’s general counsel’s assignment to paralegals of the weight and responsibility of responding to CPD requests—especially along with the surreptitious instruction to provide blanket, boilerplate responses—failed to live up to the standards required for a supervisor and top legal counsel to a City department,” the report stated.

The report also faulted COPA leadership for coordinating with the mayor’s office while preparing to testify about the case at a public hearing by the City Council, including prep sessions and having the mayor’s office provide suggested changes to prepared testimony.

“The COPA chief administrator’s coordination with [mayor’s office] staff in the preparation of public testimony and written answers to the City Council created the appearance of political influence and diminished institutional independence of COPA,” the report stated.

In addition, the report found city attorneys engaged in “conduct unbecoming City employees” during negotiations with Young’s attorneys on an eventual settlement of her lawsuit, including a former assistant corporation counsel who “repeatedly disparaged Young’s attorney, describing the attorney’s conduct as ‘a public extortion campaign,’” and accused Young’s lawyer of “making ‘some kind of emotional arguments over why he should get the video.’”

CBS 2 has reached out to the mayor’s office, COPA, CPD, and the Law Department for a response to the inspector general’s report.

A CPD spokesperson declined to comment outside of the department’s formal response included in the IG report, which emphasized reforms to the search warrant policies , including a ban on “no-knock” warrants “except in specific cases where lives or safety are in danger,” and only when they are approved by a bureau chief or higher. It’s important to note the raid on Young’s home was not a no-knock warrant.

All other search warrants will now have to be approved by a deputy chief or higher. That’s a huge move, because that’s three ranks above the previous requirement of a lieutenant approval.

CPD also said it now requires at least one lieutenant and at least one female officer on the scene when executing any search warrant.

The Law Department also referred to its formal response in the IG report.

According to the report, the Law Department has agreed to implement several reforms, including a new values statement to be presented to all employees, new training on employees’ duties to both city government and the public, creating a new policy manual, and working with COPA to create a clear policy on requirements for prompt notification of lawsuits against the city. In addition, the department said, of the seven employees interviewed by the inspector general’s office, only two are still with the Law Department.

“The two most senior individuals involved in this matter at the time of the incidents described in the OIG report were asked to resign as a direct result of the conduct they either directed, approved, or encouraged subordinates to take in the Young case,” the Law Department stated in the report.

Young emphasized back in October that she wanted the Inspector General’s report to be made public.

“I stand here today calling for justice and reform – not only for myself, but for all of the families represented – over 20 families that were represented and identified and having their homes wrongly raided by the Chicago Police Department,” Young said in October.