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Ohio mother claims flash-bang explosion during mistaken police raid injured her 17-month-old son
Courtney Price said police deployed a flash-bang explosion, which caused chemical burns to her son. Police dispute the woman's story.
www.cbsnews.com
'An Ohio mother is demanding an investigation because, she says, a mistaken police raid caught on a doorbell camera injured her little boy.
Dozens of police officers targeted her aunt's home in a Cleveland suburb last Wednesday. The woman said a flash-bang explosion blew out a window right next to her son, who was on a ventilator at the time...
...The Elyria Police Special Response Team said it was executing a search warrant for a minor connected to a burglary. Ring video captured the raid as the police broke down the front door...
...Price said Waylon was hospitalized with burns to his body, and was covered in glass and smoke. "His diagnosis is chemical pneumonitis from the chemicals in the flash-bang," Price said...
...Price's aunt, Redia Jennings, has rented this home for a year. She said the police have come multiple times searching for a suspect that didn't live there, and she says she doesn't feel safe anymore.'
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Yeah, I wouldn't feel safe either. I don't understand how the police wouldn't learn after multiple trips to the wrong property, and stop harrasing the tenants there. On top of that...a SWAT team using flashbangs for a minor alleged to be connected to a burglary? Overkill, much? WTF.