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Sickening moment SWAT team raided innocent family's home - then tried to cover up their mistake
Daily Mail UK ^ | February 26, 2025 | Laura Parnaby

Posted on 02/26/2025 8:52:33 AM PST by Morgana

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 operation's commander wrote in an after-action report that, due to the layout of the apartment building, the family was 'contacted, advised of the situation and evacuated for their own safety,' the lawsuit says.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: denver; swat
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To: uranium penguin
Was it 5 minutes to search, then 55+ minutes to come up with a CYA strategy inside that apartment?

My first thought as well...we need to find something incriminating to justify the search, so let's dig into everything.

21 posted on 02/26/2025 9:21:58 AM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: Morgana

...BY KILLING EVERYONE IN THE HOUSE?”
No witnesses...no crime!


22 posted on 02/26/2025 9:25:09 AM PST by Dick Bachert (=)
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To: xxqqzz

> At least they didn’t shoot anyone. <

True. But had there been a dog in that apartment, that dog would be dead now.


23 posted on 02/26/2025 9:33:40 AM PST by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: uranium penguin
Good point. Most regular cops are OK. The SWAT teams seem to attract psychotic fantasy Rambos who think reality is a video game.

24 posted on 02/26/2025 9:34:26 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: pepsionice

every since the Trump verdicts my numbers for a law suit if something were to happen to me are 10-100 times what they used to be.

If Trump can be fined $500,000,000 for saying he didn’t rape someone, that he didn’t.

I deserve 1 billion for anything real done against me or my family.


25 posted on 02/26/2025 9:39:27 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Welp, there goes the Taxpayers 5K dividend from the FOGE savings.

Instead, how about bringing criminal charges against those responsible and fine them? Making a jackpot for the courthouse won’t fix a thing.


26 posted on 02/26/2025 10:18:32 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Morgana

No wonder South American gangsters feel safe in Denver area apartments.


27 posted on 02/26/2025 10:23:57 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: Morgana

I’m reminded of the SWAT officer pointing his rifle in the face of little Elian Gonzales hiding in a Miami closet in the 1990s. I hope that cop saw that screaming little boy every time he closed his eyes for the rest of his life.


28 posted on 02/26/2025 10:27:43 AM PST by Midwesterner53
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To: xxqqzz

“ It sometimes is a lot worse. At least they didn’t shoot anyone.”

Good thing they didn’t have a dog.


29 posted on 02/26/2025 10:30:15 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Privatize the administrative state!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Good point. Most regular cops are OK. The SWAT teams seem to attract psychotic fantasy Rambos who think reality is a video game.”

But these are SWAT... supposedly MOAR TRAINING! the best of the best. “SPECIAL TACTICS” and everything...

I want to know. How quickly after they blew open this woman’s door was it to ALL of the body cams going off?


30 posted on 02/26/2025 10:46:58 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: JimRed

I was thinking maybe they were searching the place for donuts and coffee.


31 posted on 02/26/2025 10:47:08 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Leaning Right

I’m glad that I saw your post, because I was getting ready to post something similar.

Whilst reading the article, I thought to myself “Thank goodness they had no pets”.


32 posted on 02/26/2025 10:50:49 AM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (The US comes first, NOT Ukraine!)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

That’s backwards. Most cops are bad. Some are good.


33 posted on 02/26/2025 11:31:31 AM PST by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: TheThirdRuffian
They tore it apart hoping to find ANYTHING illegal so as to come up with a justification for the raid.

Yep.

Because if they can find that you were keeping two pet guinea pigs without having proper licenses clearly displayed in 14 languages they can say, "See! They were breaking the law."

I always remember the case of Justine Diamond. She was shot by the police for tapping on the window of their cruiser.

The police then spent hours searching HER house.

34 posted on 02/26/2025 3:20:28 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Morgana

i sincerely pray that the City of Denver is forced to cough up at least $100,000,000 plus attorney fees for this outrageous act and even more outrageous coverup ...


35 posted on 02/26/2025 3:29:39 PM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: roving

If your IQ is high, a person would like neverbe hired as a cop. IQ of 80, no problem.

That’s a fact. And guess who become police chiefs. Not a cop but I’ve encountered such cops and police chiefs.


36 posted on 02/26/2025 3:30:37 PM PST by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: Morgana

At least they didn’t gun the innocent victims down in cold blood like that dirty Houston cop.


37 posted on 02/26/2025 3:44:59 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Morgana

This is why people turn away from supporting the police. Thugs with badges. Then they cover it up. I had police in my family. They all stick together. Over time everyone begins to look like criminals, they just havent been caught yet.


38 posted on 02/26/2025 4:44:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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