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.

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    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.”

    Never ever, ever, believe a police statement of any kind. Police reps are gangsters and liars.

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      Honestly at this point I feel like if I was on a jury for some court case and some of the evidence was the testimony of a police officer, that’d probably make me less confident of whatever they had said than if they had said nothing at all. When a profession has every incentive to lie, little consequence to doing so, and in some cases consequences for revealing the lies of one’s coworkers, there is precious little room for credibility.

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      Every public school should have a class where you get to read the police report about George Floyd’s death, and then you see the video.

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      Based on historic police statements, the fact it conflicts at all should let you know it’s full of lies. Usually they get their story straight AND still lie, the fact that they can’t even do that is damning imo.

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    Cops showing up at the wrong house and throwing a flash bang at a baby is entirely on brand and raises no new questions.

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    The search warrant was for the Parmely Avenue residence, but it was issued for a person who hasn’t lived there in more than a year, Price said, sharing the search warrant left by police at the home.

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    Price said she learned police had visited the home at least five times within the past year. “The landlord even told [police] she had new tenants,” she said.

    This is after the article mentions that they only waited six seconds between knocking on the door and busting in.

    If your police department shows this degree of incompetence executing a raid, it should have all its toys taken away. No more flashbangs, no more SWAT gear, no fancy guns. You get the wrong address, you hurt an innocent person, you fail to identify yourselves, you lose privileges. Hell, I seriously question whether they need most of that shit in the first place.

    I legitimately believe that a disturbingly high number of these raids that go wrong happen because the cops want to play with with their shiny new equipment.

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      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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        ¿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.

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      Six seconds?! Holy fuck, it takes me about a minute and a half just to get the dogs corralled. Thank god I keep yelling, “just a minute!” Hopefully if this ever happens to me, the cops will hear me yelling.

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        They will ignore you and kick your door down if it’s a raid, knock or otherwise. Excellent chance they shoot your dog too because apparently the cops just love murdering family pets.

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        From everything I’ve seen, they’ll hear it, take it as an excuse to claim you weren’t complying, bust down your door based on that and shoot your understandably agitated dogs.

        Good luck.

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    cops are paid liars. they are legally allowed to, and encouraged to lie. they work closely with district attorneys, who would be the ones to prosecute them if they lie. that is why you can never trust a police officer.

    sorry guys, it is the nature of your shitty job.

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      A cop would pretty much never be prosecuted for lying, it’s perfectly legal in the US for them to lie their asses off to witnesses and suspects alike. Part of the reason we have a such a problem with innocent people being imprisoned over false confessions.

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        Yeah, because nobody notable has realized American cops as organizations were founded to be slaver patrols and if you were white and tried to protect their targets they would KILL you. I’m not saying my own country is perfect, but when the corruption rate among American police is claimed to be 98% and the corruption rate of the RCMP (yes, the Mounties) is claimed to be 0.02%? I’m literally waiting to defend myself in court and I will at least say the cops involved were fair. You know who originally the RCMP was founded by? They’re an offshoot of the UK’s royal bodyguards, the beefeaters, and as silly as that might sound, somehow it works.

        Canada has a relatively shitty mental health system but seriously, at least there’s a way to sue, convict or discredit corrupt doctors. Cops can’t be allowed to be corrupt, this is only going to be solvable if there’s a unified and violent citizen’s revolt. Go out there and pretend to be peaceful, then murder all the cops with extreme prejudice and without waiting for direct provocation when they show up and anyone who survives continues to kill police on sight until the fucking US Government gets it through their fucking heads that when the “police” are a criminal syndicate and former slaver you get fucking anarchy, a “system” of “government” that I am under no delusion is capable of producing anything of value. The government doesn’t want anarchy? Stop fucking oppressing people and the people won’t need to threaten you to get you to be a tolerable person. Being legal and rational means nothing if the system is rigged against justice.

        Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to try and get a judge to begin an investigation into an entire psychiatric ward as well as an unrelated ex-psychiatrist, because thanks to years of malpractice my life is irrecoverably ruined and I fucking hate everyone.

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          The RCMP has its own history of suppressing and murdering indigenous people. Colonialism, apartheid and genocide are some of the main reasons the RCMP exist.

          That said, I agree that the RCMP are much better on virtually every measurable metric, as is policing in Canada in general.

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    So if it wasn’t the police action that caused the burns, what did? It’s an easy question to answer: it was the police action. The pre-existing conditions had nothing to do with them picking the wrong house and burning a kid.

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    Raises new questions? No you dumb insincere assholes in the American media, we’ve been asking the same damn question and have had solid answers to why and how to fix this kind of bullshit for over a decade now.

    oh and

    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 that the child did not “sustain any apparent, visible injuries.”

    Otherwise known as cops lied once again and they’ll get a tax payer paid vacation while they investigate themselves and found they did nothing wrong.

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      Otherwise known as cops lied once again

      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.

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      I figured out this game about 15 years ago when I read an article about a police car in NYC running over someone who had the walk sign in a crosswalk. Within an hour, there was a statement that the person was at fault because they did not exercise needed caution–this was well before any sort of investigation could occur. The police simply lie and the media reports it as stated.

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    “Raises new questions,” no the fuck they did not. It raised the same question it raises every time; why are these clowns allowed to do this bullshit with 0 accountability?

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      This isn’t better but they actual did knock, but then waited less than ten seconds before they used the ram, so they busted the door down as the resident was approaching the door.

      In fact I’d agrue it’s worse because they turned a (presumably) knock warrant into a defacto no knock by refusing to wait for a response. These cops clearly wanted to play storm trooper.

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      Also I thought the SWAT stopped doing “breach and bang” systematically ? I guess their new doctrine isn’t much better if they still end up throwing grenades at babies, in the wrong house nonetheless

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      To be fair, what they thought he stole was weapons, and this headline insinuates that they knew it was the wrong house beforehand, while that doesn’t seem to be the case… Regardless, we shouldn’t be doing SWAT type raids on secondhand info, and I personally don’t think we should do them ever.

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    Is this the same baby that got flash banged a few years ago and the family is still trying to get justice for what happened? Or is this another baby that got flash banged? Either way, it’s fucking disgusting and outrageous!

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    “Price said she learned police had visited the home at least five times within the past year. “The landlord even told [police] she had new tenants,” she said.”

    They knew and they went for it anyway. Typical.

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    I want to see a new version of CSI in which they depict police doing shit like this that the unsuspecting public are dealing with and not the super heroes it tries to be written as.

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      It is a tremendous amount more difficult to make a police show without the cooperation of actual police. They only help if you portray them acceptably positive. Like B99 is about as critical as they can get I think.

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        The Rookie on the other hand is almost an ad for the police.

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          You don’t even need to know Dick Wolf is a big shot Republican to realize how Law & Order is basically fascist copaganda.

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      The Hayes Code probably still blocks this, even if it’s not enforced. Part of it was that producers of TV and movies could never portray the police in a negative light.

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          Gosh I looked it up and confirmed. I had actually thought it was law. In any case, that set us back for generations and is surely at least partially responsible for the rampant NIMBYism that is ruining the country–people don’t have the capacity to recognize these things for what they are.

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      Maybe Law and Order?

      “Yeah so this perp got away while we raised the wrong house and we just lost a multi-million dollar lawsuit for flash-banging the neighbours baby. Also another perp just walked because we failed to follow due-process and violated his rights”

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    Jesus christ, you can literally roll across the bar to be a cop. Can’t even read a map or verify an address.

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      To be fair, it was a former address of the suspect, so it’s not like they read it wrong, it just was outdated. Doesn’t excuse this shit though.

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    IMO police rules of engagement should disallow use of any tactical equipment until they at least run into active opposition. There’s an innocent until proven guilty assumption built into the legal system, the police should also have a passive until proven violent assumption.

    The only reason a single mother and baby should ever be flash banged is if they are shooting at the police. With the technology today, they should be aware of who is going to be hit by a flash bang before it’s even thrown.

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      The only reason a single mother and baby should ever be flash banged is if they are shooting at the police. With the technology today, they should be aware of who is going to be hit by a flash bang before it’s even thrown.

      That, and there isn’t ever really a need to do raids in the first place.

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        there isn’t ever really a need to do raids in the first place

        Exactly! There might be a reason to be ready for a raid, for example if there’s a strong suspicion that someone’s heavily armed and might attack. But you don’t start acting offensively until you’re 200% sure that someone poses an immediate and serious threat.

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          They’ll use the teeniest justification to play soldier. Many of these raids are simply to catch someone on stuff like probation violations or unpaid fines, yet they act like they’re trying to capture an international hitman.

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      disallow use of any tactical equipment until they at least run into active opposition

      Sure, but baby steps. How about we start with “disallow lethal force until they at least see or hear a weapon.”

      /s but also true