Overview
- A federal jury was seated and opening statements concluded, with live testimony underway in the civil-rights case over the 2018 SWAT raid on the Tate family’s Back of the Yards home.
- Grandmother Cynthia Eason testified that officers pointed rifles at her and her grandchildren, pressed a gun to her temple, and made her stand outside in a T-shirt and underwear until a paramedic provided a sheet.
- City attorneys argued officers executed two simultaneous warrants, knocked and announced, never pointed guns at children, and ultimately found the target and a rifle-like weapon in the adjacent building.
- No body-worn camera footage exists from the raid because cameras were still being phased in, leaving jurors to assess competing accounts from witnesses and officers.
- The judge ruled former Mayor Rahm Emanuel will not testify as plaintiffs advance a code-of-silence claim rooted in 2017 oversight findings, while reporting shows the city has spent about $600,000 on outside legal fees and no officer has been found guilty of misconduct from that day.