The suit, filed by attorney Mike Raulston, says on Feb. 13, 2008, the Bradys were at home when the officers suddenly came in, though they did not have any kind of warrant. The suit does not say where the house is located.

It says Officer Tinney forced Tarran Brady to the floor while holding a loaded gun to her head and threatening her.

The suit says Officer Fuller pointed his loaded gun at Randy Brady and ordered him to also get down. But Mr. Brady refused to do so and asked if they had a warrant.

It says the couple was held at gunpoint while the home was searched, placing them, their children, their spouses, nephews, nieces and grandchildren “in mortal fear.”

The suit says, the officers left “after realizing they had made a mistake.”

A father and son are furious after surviving a terrifying experience. They face criminal charges after police responded to their home by mistake.

Murfreesboro officers responded to a 911 emergency call and somehow ended up at the wrong apartment.

Roger and Justin Chilton woke to a pounding on their door at 3 a.m. Sunday. Justin - a decorated military policeman who had just returned from Iraq - answered the door holding his gun.

The officers then arrested Justin and his father.

"They held us at gunpoint, slammed us to the ground, stomped my hands and butted me in the back of the head with a shotgun," said Justin.

The officers charged the Chilton's with resisting arrest and aggravated assault for the incident.

Police did not drop the charges even after learning they responded to the wrong house.

Murfreesboro police chief Glenn Chrisman has opened an internal investigation.

Brenda Greenwell was awakened about midnight Thursday by two SWAT officers, dressed in camouflage, flipping on the lights in the bedroom of her Jeffersonville, Ind., home.
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Her husband, Ed, was next door at his brother's house, he said, and neither he nor his 57-year-old wife, who has heart problems, had heard that two police officers had been wounded earlier that night at a local motel, allegedly by someone who knew their granddaughter.

The two officers came in through the home's unlocked rear door, Ed Greenwell said, and found his wife in the bedroom.

"She asked who they were," Greenwell said yesterday, and the two officers -- armed with rifles, he said -- said they were police but didn't show badges or other identification.

Greenwell said his wife grabbed a .38-caliber revolver kept at the head of their bed and chased the men outside, where he heard her screaming at them from the rear deck, gun in hand.

"It could have been a death sentence for her," Greenwell said, saying he was thankful the officers allowed him to get through their cordon and calm his wife.

But Greenwell, himself a former police officer in Harrison County and North Carolina, said he's troubled because he was never shown a search warrant allowing police to enter his house.

Brenda Greenwell had a hard time catching her breath after the incident, so her husband took her to Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany, where she remained yesterday awaiting heart bypass surgery for two blocked arteries. The surgery is set for today at Norton Hospital in Louisville.

Greenwell said his wife has had heart trouble and previously had a stent inserted to open a blocked artery.

Larry Thomas, a spokesman for the city of Jeffersonville, said it could not be determined yesterday whether a warrant had been issued to search the Greenwells' house. Police still are gathering reports being written by scores of officers from Thursday night's manhunt for the gunman, and it will take days to assemble and analyze the police response, he said.

Originally posted by airforce:
Also on Wednesday, police in Pinellas County, Florida say they accidentally shot 45-year-old Brenda McKay shortly after tearing down her door during a drug raid. McKay was shot in the thigh, and is expected to be okay. Police made no arrests after that raid.[/QB]

Originally posted by SGTBloodLoss:
Some things for us to pay close attention to are the mistakes these JBT squads are making.

When police stormed the house on Indian Church Road, near Seneca Street, at about 5:30 p. m. Saturday, Daniel Patterson was on the couch, watching the news.

“They shot the dogs for no reason at all,” he told The Buffalo News on Sunday.

Rita Patterson said she was cooking dinner in the kitchen when she heard loud noises at the side door. Hanavan was upstairs taking a nap, and at first she thought he may have fallen out of bed.

Before she knew what was happening, police wearing masks and helmets and carrying automatic weapons had broken through the door. They tied her hands with a zip tie and put her on the floor.

Her father pleaded with police not to shoot the dogs, but they wouldn’t allow him to grab the dogs and put them in another room, Patterson said.

One of the officers started firing a shotgun at the two dogs, one a pit bull and the other a pit bull-boxer mix.

One of the dogs was shot three times: once in the throat, once in the back and the last time in the leg while trying to run away, Rita Patterson said.

The other dog was cowering behind a table. Neither was a threat to the police, the residents said.

The police had a warrant for the home, but it named no suspects. It said only that investigators were looking for a white male and Hydrocodone. Information that led to the warrant, according to the warrant itself, came partly from an informant, Rita Patterson said.

Originally posted by RD6:
F*CKING NO GOOD WORTHLESS C*CKSUCKING BASTARDS!

Originally posted by Imagrunt:

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Originally posted by RD6:
[b] F*CKING NO GOOD WORTHLESS C*CKSUCKING BASTARDS!

Since the Oakland SWAT killings, the LEOs around these parts are afraid to enter homes that might have guns... [/b]

James and Sheila Slaughter said that when they answered the door of their home in San Luis, Ariz., on a July afternoon last year, they were surprised to find five armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers strapped into bulky bulletproof vests accusing them of harboring an illegal immigrant.

“Is this ‘Candid Camera’?” Mrs. Slaughter recalled asking.

That irritated the lead officer, her husband said Tuesday. “He said: ‘No, it isn’t “Candid Camera.” You need to step back into the middle of the room.’ ”

The couple said they complied, and the officers prepared to search their home. Mr. Slaughter, a six-foot, 285-pound former Marine, said he then told them, “Look fellas, do you guys realize that I’m a U.S. Customs K-9 officer at the San Luis land port?”

“The lead officer’s eyes got about as big and round as silver dollars, and the three guys who were standing just inside the door went straight outside,” said Mr. Slaughter, 51, who with a Labrador retriever, Whitey, searches cars at the Mexican border for narcotics. “They left without saying a word. They knew they messed up.”…

Mr. Slaughter, whose family lives on East 26th Street, said he learned later that the illegal immigrant sought by the officers lived on East 26th Place. He recognized the immigrant’s name from junk mail that accidentally came to the Slaughter home.

The officers, Mr. Slaughter said, should have checked the name on property records, “or they could have watched me walk out of my house every day wearing my uniform.”

“They bullied their way into my house — the same organization that I work for, doing 16-hour shifts,” Mr. Slaughter said. “I bleed red, white and blue. I serve my country, and then they do this to me?”

Eighteen-year-old Kaleigh Berry felt she was the victim of a home invasion Tuesday afternoon when armed men pulled up in front of her Earline Avenue residence and came in yelling for everyone in the house to show themselves, she said.

Everyone did, including Berry’s 66-year-old grandmother, 8-month-old son and two female friends, ages 18 and 28.

Berry and her grandmother, Jackie McAuliffe, said the men were wearing what appeared to be Kevlar vests but didn’t identify themselves until McAuliffe demanded they do so.
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That’s when one said he was a Columbus probation officer. McAuliffe said she noticed another officer had insignia on his shirt showing he worked for the Muscogee County sheriff.

Then it became clear that the five or six people who came swarming out of a dark SUV about 3 or 3:30 p.m. and surrounded Berry’s house before two pushed their way inside were law enforcement officers.

The women were terrified, as was Berry’s baby, Cohen.

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An Indianapolis family is asking for an apology from police after officers mistakenly barged into their home during an early-morning warrant sweep.

Marye Minton, 70, and her 72-year-old husband were awoken early Thursday to officers banging on the door of their home, 6News' Ericka Flye reported.

Marye Minton said she is upset that the officers came inside and ordered her husband, who is in poor health, onto the ground.

"They said to him, 'Get on the floor,' like that, and see my husband's had four strokes, and he can't whoop anybody, he can't do anything," she said. "I'm very mad and I don't want it to happen to another citizen."

Officers were trying to serve a warrant for a man wanted on drug charges. The address listed on the paperwork was 4042. The Minton's home is 4048, with both house numbers clearly marked.

But Major Mark Robinett of the Marion County Sheriff's Department, who is in charge of warrant sweeps, said he was told that officers had a difficult time reading the addresses because of overcast skies.

He said the officers identified themselves and handled their mistake appropriately.

"Within a couple of minutes they determined that they were at the wrong address. At that point, they apologized and they left," he said.

The Mintons said their front door was damaged by the officers' banging. They said they want a formal apology.

"I want them to come in here and tell me that they're sorry," Marye Minton said. "Not on the phone, don't send me a letter. Come in my door, like you sent your men in my house."

Robinett said even though an apology was made Thursday morning, that someone will go back to the home soon and offer and apology in person.

Kenyan immigrant Nancy Njoroge had been living in the United States for a year when a Montgomery County SWAT team burst into her Gaithersburg apartment at 4 a.m., handcuffed her and her two teenage daughters, and searched her apartment, court records show.

Police found nothing.

The reason: Njoroge lived in No. 202 of her apartment complex. The police had a search warrant for apartment 201.

After rejecting an offer from the county’s claims adjuster of a “couple of movie passes,” the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the county on the family’s behalf for unspecified damages, according to ACLU records filed in court.

The ACLU said the purpose of the lawsuit was to hold the police department accountable for its mistake.

“Officers had but one apartment to locate, in a quiet and well-lit hallway in the dead of night, without distraction and with clearly marked doors and numbers,” ACLU lawyer Fritz Mulhauser said in a letter to the county…

Court records don’t give a clear reason why the police raided the wrong apartment, and the county attorney assigned to the case did not respond to inquiries for the story. But in court records, a SWAT team leader indicated that it was an isolated incident.

A Columbia couple filed a $5 million lawsuit Monday against the Howard County Police Department stemming from a raid at their home in 2008.

Lisa and Kevin Henderson accused the county's SWAT team of excessive force and malicious prosecution after they raided the couple's home in January 2008.

"I hear the door opening, and my husband says, 'Who's walking in my door and not announcing themselves?' So, he's looking, and all of a sudden we see red beams and flashing lights on myself and friend sitting on the couch," said Lisa Henderson.

The couple said they're still rattled by the raid on their townhouse.

"I kneeled down and put my hands behind me. Someone grabbed me and handcuffed me. My husband was screaming. I was saying, 'Please don't hurt him. He's disabled.' And I still didn't know it was police," Lisa Henderson told 11 News.

The couple's attorney said the police had the wrong house.

"The warrant is defective because the warrant identifies people that aren't associated with the house. It's sad," said attorney Jimmy Bell.

According to court papers, the Howard County police SWAT team entered the home unannounced through the front door, which was unlocked. When Grunt the family dog started barking, court documents indicated one of the officers enticed the dog to coming running and shot him point blank.

"I lost my best friend. He helped me when I needed him to help without being told or trained," said Kevin Henderson.

The couple said when Kevin Henderson tried to explain to police he was disabled and unable to move quickly, they responded by stepping on his feet and legs. He told the officers he couldn't put his arms behind his back because of surgery he had on his left shoulder, but they cuffed him anyway.

Lisa Henderson said police pointed a gun to her face and threatened to blow her head off, then picked her up by her shirt and pushed her into a chair so hard that she bit the inside of her mouth.

"I'm a taxpayer in this county. I don't have a criminal record. I've never even had a parking ticket, so why are you treating me like I am a criminal?" Lisa Henderson questioned.

Police said they found five small jars of marijuana, a pipe and grinder on a visitor to the Henderson's home. The guest admitted he owned the material and was arrested and tried on possession charges.

After the Hendersons filed a formal complaint, Howard County police charged them with drug possession.

"When my clients complained, they charged them and they were exonerated by a judge," Bell said.

The Hendersons filed the lawsuit in federal court on Monday. A trial date is expected by next spring.

A Howard County police representative said the department has not been officially notified of the lawsuit.