Posted on 08/24/2015 6:31:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
WORCESTER (CBS) — Marianne Diaz and her fiancé, Bryant Alequin, felt their lives were in danger when a SWAT team raided their third-floor apartment on Hillside Street with guns drawn.
Diaz says she grabbed her seven-year-old and 18-month-old girls and prayed while Worcester police officers and State Police troopers executed a search warrant.
“It was terrorizing, and the worst thing I’ve ever been through in my life. They were loud, vulgar, and disgusting in behavior,” she said.
It happened on Wednesday around 5:30 in the morning.
Alequin says he was in the bathroom getting ready for work.
“I was scared, honestly. They put me in handcuffs, they were very tight, and it was ugly,” he said.
Turns out they were not the people police were looking for.
“I just want there to be a full-on investigation, and give us an explanation as to why they did this to my family and why they terrorized us the way they did,” Diaz says.
The family’s attorney, Hector Pineiro, says his clients rights were violated.
“You can imagine 10 officers looking and pointing guns at a naked 23-year-old mother protecting her two kids. The horrific language and pointing of weapons at children cannot be justified under any circumstances,” he said.
Police have raided the apartment before, but Diaz moved in back in May with her fiancé and two children.
The person that used to live there does have a criminal record, but Diaz and her family have never been in trouble with law.
“They came into my house like that when they did not have their facts right,” Alequin said.
The DA’s office released a statement saying “The search warrant was executed based on the best intelligence at the time. He (the target) had been in the dwelling in the days before the execution of the search warrant.”
Pineiro strongly disagrees.
“It’s clear to me that the (district attorney’s) office is not going to look into what happened because he’s already giving the blessing they acted on the best intelligence, which is a complete joke,” he said.
The family has not yet decided if they will file a lawsuit.
Probably being inundated with lawyers crawling thru every crack in the apartment..................
SWAT PIGS!
Why is it so often that in these politically liberal bastions (Boston area) the “fuzz” often seems to be the meanest? Could it be the backfiring of political liberalism? (Which isn’t political libertarianism, which would reel in horror at the thought of such events.)
This is the police state of Massachusetts. What do you expect. The LEO are free to do whatever they want as citizens are prevented from firearm ownership.
The socialists and LEO unions are so strong, nothing will happen with this and they will move to another neighborhood next week, rinse and repeat.
Prosecutor is a PIG also. F him.
BTW when the political liberals think they have paid their moral dues to whoever (the global warming crowd or the Starbucks set etc.) it’s like they say that’s ENOUGH, now everyone else gets the mean treatment.
And so they are far more illiberal than most conservatives are, a very few grim exceptions notwithstanding.
Her life was in danger. If she’s dumb enough to push the issue, the courts will rule it a simple mistake, no penalty to the state for that. The reasonably foreseeable outcome of living in the US is that your home can be invaded by the state with extreme force, for no reason other than accident, at any time.
The guy the cops were looking for was already in police custody and had been for about a week.
The bad guy was there “in the days before” the raid? In May or when? What did the guy do, over due traffic ticket?
Luck they didn't have dog, we know how that always plays out, even if just an ankle-biter.
Seriously? If so, then they deserve to be sued into poverty...................
“Records showed police had arrested the man the SWAT team was looking for, who was a previous tenant at the apartment, at a different address on Aug. 6, the newspaper reported.”
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/massachusetts_swat_team_raids.html
As long as the lawsuits are personal (maybe lien on their houses) and not paid for by citizen’s taxes.
2 reasons - (1) Police UNIONS and, (2) like WalMart the lefties love the institution, while at the same time, using it as a convenient target. Having created police states in Democrat cities, they now use their own screwed-up cultures to rally voters.
Oh wow, if so... this wins them the Inspector Clueless Clouseau award. I’d sue. Probably will never go to trial, it will just settle in such a way as to tax a lot of already heavily taxed politically liberal souls. Still.
Even indirectly, citizens who tolerate this garbage have a hand in its moral liability.
They are government agents acting in pursuit of their duties as such. The PD needs to be punished for their incompetence and the only way to do that is to hit them in the pocket book, even though the taxpayers are the ones who ultimately pay the price. When they get fed up with the costs of government incompetence, then they will change it........................
Exactly so. The left voting public voted for the government they got. Now they are part of the problem and must pay the price as well........................
Maybe they are hinting for a grande settlement (pun on Starbucks) by saying they are not sure if they want to sue.
I would hope it happens (taking the high road towards a gaggle of low-roaders). But it might need to go to court.
http://www.telegram.com/article/20150821/NEWS/150829750
“Multiple neighbors told the T&G Thursday that Mr. Jackson hadn’t lived in the apartment since at least February.
Ms. Diaz was disturbed when informed by a reporter that courthouse records show that Worcester police had arrested Mr. Jackson on a theft warrant two weeks ago.
In the police log entry for the arrest – which occurred on Southgate Street on Aug. 6 – officers list Mr. Jackson’s address as 71 Sylvan St.”
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