Plaintiff:
La'Tanya Tierra Carter
Incident date:
02/09/2007
Location:
1136 N. Monticello Ave.
Allegations:
Officers obtained a search warrant for the basement and first-floor apartment of a home in Humboldt Park. Carter was a guest in a second-floor apartment in the building. The search warrant did not include the second floor of that residence. But as the officers executed their search of the basement and first floor, they also forced their way up to the second-floor apartment. The officers entered the apartment with their guns drawn. They seized, searched and handcuffed the residents of that second-floor apartment, including Carter. She was forced down to the first-floor apartment, where she was detained, searched again and held under arrest for a number of hours while officers continued to search the second-floor apartment.