A toddler was critically injured by a flashbang during an early morning SWAT raid in Georgia Wednesday.
According to Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the raid took place after a confidential informant reported he had purchased methamphetamine from Thometheva.
Law enforcement officials were familiar with Thometheva, who had prior drug and firearm related arrests. He wasn’t home at the time of the raid but was captured later on at another residence.
Cornelia Police Chief Rick Darby said the operation was a multijurisdictional effort. He added there was no indication children were present in the home.
The side of the baby’s playpen was blown open from the blast of the flashbang.
“There was no clothes, no toys, nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home. If there had been then we’d have done something different,” Darby said.
It happened in
Cornelia, about 75 miles NE of Atlanta, with a population of 3,834 at the 2010 census, and they have a SWAT team? Though maybe not -
multijurisdictional effort means the SWAT team could have been from anywhere (in Georgia?). No indication that children were present? So eager to use their swat team that they couldn't bother to check on children possibly being there? Or maybe they just didn't care.
I watch a lot of ID TV shows. When the cops are describing arrests of criminals they watch the place and go in when they know the perp is there AND whether anyone else is in the home that could be harmed. I guess only murderers are apprehended that way, not petty drug dealers/users.