A federal jury has ordered the City of Chicago to pay $5.7 million in damages to the Tate family following a 2018 police raid that left children and their grandmother, Cynthia Eason, traumatized.
The verdict comes after a three-week trial examining the conduct of police officers during the August 9, 2018, SWAToperation at the family’s home in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood.
A Grandmother’s Ordeal
At the heart of the case was the experience of Eason, who testified that officers forced her outside during the raid while she was dressed only in a T-shirt and underwear.
Jurors heard that officers used flash-bang grenades, forcibly entered the apartment without knocking, and pointed assault rifles at four children — ages 4, 8, 11, and 13 — who were inside the home…