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.
Despite all the other problems (and believe me, I’m very, very strident in my criticisms of policing in the US), if it didn’t always ALWAYS come down to this, I could possibly begin to understand the “well it’s a really hard job we’re doing our best” defense.
No, cops. You fuck up, and you lie about it. You got away with it for decades to centuries before there were cameras you couldn’t control everywhere. Don’t tell me about your integrity or about how I just don’t understand the job. Talk to me about those things when lies aren’t the go-to for police when shit hits the fan every. single. time.
As a combat veteran it boils my blood that cops here aren’t held to ANY standard domestically while I’ve been in situations under fire where we had to wait for confirmation to fire back.
Call me a commie but I think domestic beat cops shouldn’t be able to shoot at somebody easier than a soldier in a war zone can. 🤷