SWAT Team Raids Wrong Home
The family has not yet decided if they will file a lawsuit, according the CBS Boston report.
Massachusetts State Police have are investigating a no-knock SWAT raid that a Worcester family says was a mistake.
“They were loud, vulgar and disgusting in behavior”, Diaz said of the authorities.
They put him in handcuffs. “I felt scared honestly”.
In the end, however, it turns out that officers did not have the correct home. He wrote that police had raided the apartment last September, finding drugs.
The district attorney says the team executed their search warrant on what they say was the “best intelligence at the time”. He (the target) had been in the dwelling in the days before the execution of the search warrant.
‘This botched gun raid, without any doubt, is about an innocent family with two children – one disabled – who were utterly terrorized and abused as a result of the grossly reckless conduct exhibited by (police),’ Pineiro said.
“He’s already giving the blessing they acted on the best intelligence which is a complete joke”, said the family’s attorney Hector Pinerio.
Officers burst through the front and back doors of the third-floor apartment, throwing Diaz’s fiancé Bryant Alequin and their roommate Joshua Matos to the ground.
She explained that she had slept undressed to combat the heat and for 10 minutes she was held at gunpoint along with her frightened 18-month-old and 7-year-old daughters before being allowed to get dressed.
“Stop [expletive] crying and take care of your [expletive] kids, ” she said an officer said. “The horrific language and pointing of weapons at children can not be justified under any circumstances”, Pineiro told CBS Boston. “We just want to find out who’s accountable”.
“Before they left, one (officer) said, ‘We treated you with respect, ‘” Diaz said. “That’s what hurts the most”.
“Nobody said sorry to us”, he said.