The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.

The mayor of Elyria, Ohio, has ordered an investigation after a woman alleged that police officers who raided her home had the wrong address and deployed flash-bang devices that sent her 1-year-old to the hospital with burns.

Police have offered a conflicting account of what happened Jan. 10, saying in a statement Friday that they had executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child did not “sustain any apparent, visible injuries.”

Courtney Price says audio from her Ring camera proves them wrong. In a clip shared exclusively with NBC News on Tuesday, someone can be heard saying “it’s the wrong house.” It is not clear who made the remark because the camera fell to the ground and went dark after police deployed the flash-bang devices.

  • @Suavevillain
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    1911 months ago

    The police do shit like this and then their funding increased each year.

    • @assassin_aragorn
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      411 months ago

      It’s kinda fucked up, but Sanders i think explained it well. We need increased funding so there’s higher salaries to attract better people.

      I bet we could claw back a lot of money for that without increasing funding though if we stopped buying military surplus.

          • @[email protected]
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            511 months ago

            Sure, but thee culture has to change first, the recruitment ads are so tone deaf, they really don’t realize it’s because decent people want nothing to do with these organizations anymore. I’d suggest no longer allowing high level management to have ever been cops, but maybe defense attorneys or any sort of lawyer who has never been a prosecutor. It’s been done before, PM Stephen Harper got so mad at the RCMP Superintendent he put a lawyer in charge, first time a non cop had been put in. They lost their minds over it.

            • @stoly
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              211 months ago

              It’s pretty much like what happened with the military. People are no longer enlisting because the benefits aren’t there and people who enlisted and were screwed over are telling family and friends not to enlist.

            • @assassin_aragorn
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              111 months ago

              Oh for sure, it needs to be a twofold effort. We need good, decent people to become cops, and we need leadership that is committed to changed policies.

              I think it makes a lot of sense actually to remove all current police from leadership. We can follow the military model and have a civil police chief, like a mayor or city planner.

      • @stoly
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        411 months ago

        Nah, police commonly earn in the $150,000 to $200,000 range because of overtime and powerful unions.

        • @OneThere
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          111 months ago

          Can you provide sources from this? I’m genuinely curious, the highest I’ve heard was $80,000 and it was a campus department with endowment funding.

          Also, I wouldn’t count overtime as part of the salary. Having to work that much is going to put extra stress on you, make you irritable, wear you down, etc. and result in turnover.

    • @stoly
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      311 months ago

      That’s because NIMBYs are people without any sort of compassion or empathy for other humans. They only want the scary people who want their stuff to stay away and don’t care what the damage is in the process of that.

      • @ripcord
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        111 months ago

        Is NIMBY the right term here…?

        • @stoly
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          211 months ago

          They are the ones voting for the law and order types for mayor or city council.

          • @ripcord
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            111 months ago

            NIMBY to me would be things like people who want Wind power but not near them. Seems like you’re using it fairly differently so I’m asking about that.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      If only they all had the new Apple AR helmet thing, a tragedy like this wouldn’t have happened!