Oops, wrong house, sorry ’bout the door . . . and your civil liberties
Per this:
Rather than netting the suspected killer for whom they were looking, a phalanx of armed sheriff’s deputies burst into a northwest Harris County home Saturday, terrifying a sleeping 10-year-old girl and a man cooking gumbo.
Erik and Tyronna Green, who live in the 12400 block of Silverwyck, were shooting pool in their garage about 7:30 p.m., while Tyronna’s 10-year-old daughter, Lisa Eglin slept. Tyronna’s brother, Andrew Morrison, was just getting out of the shower. His girlfriend was in the house, and their cousin, Dennis Ceasar, was in the kitchen cooking gumbo.
That’s when about a dozen deputies with the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force burst into the home.
“All of a sudden, they were everywhere,” Morrison said of the deputies. “Telling everybody, `Get down! Get down! Get the f— down!’ None of us knew what was going on. We kept telling them they had the wrong house, but they wouldn’t listen.”
Tyronna Green said her daughter was awakened by men pointing guns at her and yelling at her to get on the floor.
“It was terrible,” Tyronna Green said. “She’s not even sleeping now at night.”
The deputies checked the identification of everyone in the house, then handcuffed Ceasar and took him away, leaving the others with only a vague idea of what had happened.
“They were looking for some guy named Shawn or something, from Louisiana,” Morrison said. “None of us even knew him.”
The police stated that they had the right address and that this was a ruse (or a coincidence). The police should have to prove that.
