Another Wrong Home SWAT Raid
BY Herschel Smith
10 years, 2 months ago
A New Haven man claims a SWAT team wrongly invaded his home and took him into custody for hours, according to a lawsuit filed against the New Haven Police Department, Chief Dean Esserman and the city of New Haven.
The lawsuit states that a New Haven SWAT team entered the Peck Street home of Joseph Adams on Oct. 21, 2013 throwing “flash bombs” and kicking in doors.
“So, I looked over the balcony and I saw two gun barrels and I was like, oh my God, I’m being robbed,” Adams said.
According to Adams and the lawsuit, he was taken into custody for two and a half hours while officers searched his home. Adams claims that he and a neighbor informed police that they were at the wrong apartment and needed to go to the apartment next door.
“I was like, ‘I think you want the guy next door.’ And they’re like, ‘why would you say that?’ I was like, ‘because I talked to him a while ago and he has a criminal record,’” Adams said.
The lawsuit states that Adams was released and the SWAT team took his next door neighbor, Bobby Griffin Jr., into custody under suspicion of murder. Several days later, Adams sought out an attorney.
“It feels like you’re living in a police state suddenly. The people who are supposed to be there to protect you are, you know, stomping down your door, throwing flash grenades into your house and goose-stepping their way over your freedom,” attorney Max Rosenberg said.
Adams told FOX CT that he filled out a form to request payment from the New Haven Police Department to repair damages in his apartment from the incident. He claims the department said there was no record of the incident ever happening.
We’re not suddenly living in a police state. It happened gradually while the American public dumbed down their education, focused on football and dumb ass sitcoms at night time, and elected totalitarians to rule them and “take care of them.”
How nice, though. This one has a new twist. There is no record of the incident ever happening. Of course there isn’t.
On October 15, 2014 at 7:42 am, Seerightthere! said:
This wont end until large numbers of sanctioned home invaders start getting sent to the morgue.
On October 15, 2014 at 1:06 pm, Archer said:
Or jail. I’d accept that, too.
Like I’ve been saying, “qualified immunity” cannot continue to extend to this kind of jackassery. If the cops can’t be bothered to do their due diligence and make damn sure they have the right suspects and addresses, then they’re just as morally culpable to the outcome as if they’d deliberately raided the wrong home. It’s high time they become legally culpable as well.
Seriously, if a Dominos delivery guy can get fired for taking down the wrong address, not verifying it, and delivering there, the cops should (at the least) be fired for that, too. This isn’t rocket science!