This is a horror show. I've heard the phrase shoot first and ask questions later, but does that also mean tossing a grenade in a toddler's crib first and then checking the scene later?
The mother of the toddler told Channel 2 Action News Friday morning that the boy remains in a medically-induced coma.
“He is in a medically induced coma and he is paralyzed. I hope he’s not going to remember this. I know his sisters, his mommy and his daddy will never forget this," the boy's mother, Alecia Phonesavanh, said. "Our kids have been through enough this year. This is just more trauma that they didn’t need, and I just wish there was something better I could do to make it better for him. Wrong place, wrong time. There’s nothing I can do about it."
The family's home in Wisconsin recently burned down, prompting their trip to Atlanta to visit family.--
A family says a SWAT team raided their home in the middle of the night and seriously injured a 19-month-old boy with a stun grenade. Cornelia police Chief Rick Darby confirmed that the raid took place at the home just before 3 a.m. He said a multijurisdictional drug unit issued a warrant and organized the SWAT operation.
Deputies said they bought drugs from the house, and came back with a no-knock warrant to arrest a man known to have drugs and weapons.
“There was no clothes, no toys, nothing to indicate that there was children present in the home. If there had been then we'd have done something different,” Darby said.
Sending in a SWAT team for some drug buys in a house sounds like overkill to the umpth degree.
