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.

  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com
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    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.

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      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.