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.

  • BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world
    103·
    10 months ago

    The search warrant was for the Parmely Avenue residence, but it was issued for a person who hasn’t lived there in more than a year, Price said, sharing the search warrant left by police at the home.

    […]

    Price said she learned police had visited the home at least five times within the past year. “The landlord even told [police] she had new tenants,” she said.

    This is after the article mentions that they only waited six seconds between knocking on the door and busting in.

    If your police department shows this degree of incompetence executing a raid, it should have all its toys taken away. No more flashbangs, no more SWAT gear, no fancy guns. You get the wrong address, you hurt an innocent person, you fail to identify yourselves, you lose privileges. Hell, I seriously question whether they need most of that shit in the first place.

    I legitimately believe that a disturbingly high number of these raids that go wrong happen because the cops want to play with with their shiny new equipment.

    • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comEnglish
      443·
      10 months ago

      that is not incompetence.

      that is malice.

      i’m tired of reading cop apologists tell me about incompetence.

      Fuck your incompetence. They are murderous thugs. They are quite competent at it.

      • SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca
        3·
        10 months ago

        ¿Porque no los dos?

        These aren’t mutually exclusive categories. For my part, I’m not prepared to attribute competent malice to everything the police do.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      15·
      10 months ago

      Six seconds?! Holy fuck, it takes me about a minute and a half just to get the dogs corralled. Thank god I keep yelling, “just a minute!” Hopefully if this ever happens to me, the cops will hear me yelling.

      • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        They will ignore you and kick your door down if it’s a raid, knock or otherwise. Excellent chance they shoot your dog too because apparently the cops just love murdering family pets.

      • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        10 months ago

        From everything I’ve seen, they’ll hear it, take it as an excuse to claim you weren’t complying, bust down your door based on that and shoot your understandably agitated dogs.

        Good luck.