The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.

The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.

The mayor of Elyria, Ohio, has ordered an investigation after a woman alleged that police officers who raided her home had the wrong address and deployed flash-bang devices that sent her 1-year-old to the hospital with burns.

Police have offered a conflicting account of what happened Jan. 10, saying in a statement Friday that they had executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child did not “sustain any apparent, visible injuries.”

Courtney Price says audio from her Ring camera proves them wrong. In a clip shared exclusively with NBC News on Tuesday, someone can be heard saying “it’s the wrong house.” It is not clear who made the remark because the camera fell to the ground and went dark after police deployed the flash-bang devices.

    • agitatedpotato@lemmy.world
      49·
      10 months ago

      This isn’t better but they actual did knock, but then waited less than ten seconds before they used the ram, so they busted the door down as the resident was approaching the door.

      In fact I’d agrue it’s worse because they turned a (presumably) knock warrant into a defacto no knock by refusing to wait for a response. These cops clearly wanted to play storm trooper.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
        6·
        10 months ago

        Yup. Probably in an area where they knew a judge wouldn’t sign off on a no-knock warrant. So they just knocked once, then rammed the door anyways.

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
      20·
      10 months ago

      Also I thought the SWAT stopped doing “breach and bang” systematically ? I guess their new doctrine isn’t much better if they still end up throwing grenades at babies, in the wrong house nonetheless

    • Malfeasant@lemmy.world
      51·
      10 months ago

      To be fair, what they thought he stole was weapons, and this headline insinuates that they knew it was the wrong house beforehand, while that doesn’t seem to be the case… Regardless, we shouldn’t be doing SWAT type raids on secondhand info, and I personally don’t think we should do them ever.

      • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
        9·
        10 months ago

        This is America. Someone having weapons isn’t an emergency; it’s just a typical day. Cops only treat it as an emergency when they want an excuse to cosplay as commandos.