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Posted on 02/26/2025 3:03:52 PM PST by algore
Kirsty Shelton was at home preparing lunch and watching television with her daughters and their grandmother when they were startled by loud banging on their apartment door by a SWAT team looking for a man who lived across the hall.
Shelton's mother told them they had the wrong apartment but, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the Denver officers, she and her daughter were ordered outside at gunpoint.
When the officers then entered the apartment, they encountered two girls, aged five and six, in their bedroom.
According to the body camera footage of the June 2023 incident, an officer told them they could play there and that he would get their grandmother, but the girls began to scream.
Police then put the family, including another adult who had just gotten out of the shower, into a locked police car for about an hour and took over their apartment as they continued to search for the suspect, according to the lawsuit.
It says police knew the man they were looking for lived in apartment 307, not 306 where the Shelton family lived, and that the numbers were clearly marked.
It claims police didn't admit to making a mistake but instead denied the raid ever happened.
The man was arrested hours later in the apartment directly opposite theirs, the lawsuit says.
Holland and Weiss filed the lawsuit in state court under Colorado's 2020 police reform law, which does not allow officers to try to block lawsuits under the claim of qualified immunity, as they can in federal court.
It alleges that at least 10 officers violated the family's constitutional right to be free of unlawful searches and seizures, and that the family was subjected to excessive force.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Don’t worry, the fanboys will say it was perfectly okay and by the books.
That we’re overreacting or something.
Seen it before.
I’ll be surprised if they don’t.
If true, that's worse than the original mistake.
Qualified immunity needs to be done away with everywhere.
“Claimed” no claim about it, the Blue Thugs literally did violate her and her family.
The moment any legal error is found in how the police executes their law enforcement actions qualified immunity needs to be removed.
In this case they all need to be sued into oblivion, they had ample time to pull back through the ordeal instead of literally kidnapping the family.
They should have settled out of court. The jury that hears this will be so outraged they will try to bankrupt these cops
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