Buffalo police raided the wrong dwelling, occupied by the family of Shavon Pennyamon and her disabled husband Terrell, who was assaulted in the raid.
Buffalo News:
Buffalo Police batter their way into wrong house: Family of 8 traumatized by officers’ behavior; officials admit error made but defend actions
The raid should have gone down at a different apartment upstairs.
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[Shavon]Pennyamon alleges that after wrongly breaking into her apartment, police proceeded to strike her epileptic husband in the head with the butt end of a shotgun and point shotguns at her young children before admitting their mistake and then raiding the right apartment.
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Pennyamon was called home from her job as a certified nursing assistant at a local health care facility at about 6:30 p. m. Wednesday to find police at her house, her children partially dressed on the porch and her husband — a U.S. Air Force veteran — injured. She said police were rude and unapologetic.
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She said her husband, Terrell, suffered a dislocated arm after he was yanked up by police during the raid and is expected to return to his doctor Monday to possibly have glass — left behind by the door window police broke to get into the apartment — surgically removed from his foot.
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There is absolutely no excuse for hitting people on the head with butt end of a shotgun or pointing guns at young children. And they had the correct address with them. Apparently either they can read or they didn't bother.
There is nothing defensible about their actions when they make such mistakes. You can't defend that which is wrong in the first place.
08-22-2008, 01:59 PM
Buffalo, NY: Police Batter Their Way into Wrong House
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