"Georgia toddler badly burned in police raid" Associated Press May 31, 2014
ATLANTA — Officers raiding a Georgia home in search of a drug suspect used a flash grenade not knowing children were inside, severely burning a toddler who was sleeping just inside the door, authorities and the boy’s family said.
Isn't there a better way to pick people up than with jackbooted stormtrooper tactics?
WTF has happened to AmeriKa's police?
Related: American police now “Israeli-DHS trained,” precursor to dictatorship
Oh.
Looks like we are all Palestinian now, and authority is reflecting it. The ADL is even bragging about it.
Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell said the officers were looking for a suspect who may have been armed and followed proper procedure by using the device, which creates a bright flash and loud bang to distract suspects.
Oh, he MAY have been armed, huh?
Yup, proper procedures were followed so no fault of the thugs.
Alecia Phonesavanh told local media her son was sleeping in his playpen when the raid began Wednesday morning.
‘‘The cops threw that grenade in the door without looking first, and it landed right in the playpen and exploded on his pillow right in his face,’’ Phonesavanh told WSB-TV.
OMG! The kid is going to be traumatized for life!
The officers were looking for Wanis Thonetheva, 30, who lives at the home with his mother and had recently sold drugs to an informant at the house, the sheriff said.
No better way of getting the guy, huh? Couldn't have followed and arrested him somewhere else when he wasn't expecting it? On a drug buy, perhaps?
All these cops are ex-military and looking for the adrenal action of war. Looks like they found it in Atlanta.
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Also see: Toddler’s fall deemed a ‘tragic accident’
It was a hard choice just linking that item.
