DC SWAT raid nets ACLU lawsuit

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    K-Romulus

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    Mar 15, 2007
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    Over "the line," the ACLU is taking the fight to DC:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/31/AR2009033101630.html

    The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit this morning against the D.C. police on behalf of a Northeast Washington woman who alleges that officers used an overwhelming show of force when they raided her house in the dead of night last year.

    Police had a warrant to search the property and were seeking "firearms, ammunition, holsters" and other items that might tie the woman's son to the killing of a 19-year-old man in the 1500 block of F Street NE on July 16, records show.

    Officers executed the warrant at 4:30 a.m. Aug. 13 at the home of Jerry Youngbey, 50, in the Trinidad area.

    But the ACLU says officers did not seek permission from a judge, as required under D.C. law, to execute the warrant at such an early hour. Youngbey, who is seeking unspecified damages for broken property and emotional distress, awoke to explosions and breaking glass at her rowhouse in the 1300 block of Queen Street NE. She was held for a time at gunpoint, and memories of the raid still terrify her, she said. "I don't want to get out of the bed in the morning anymore," she said.

    The ACLU also says the officers didn't do enough homework to determine whether Youngbey's son, John, actually lived with her. He had not resided at the house for a few years, said Carl Takei, an ACLU attorney for Youngbey.

    Officers didn't seize any evidence, records show.

    "Ms. Youngbey has a right to sleep at home at night without fearing that police will recklessly wake her up at gunpoint to ransack her house," Takei said. (..more..)
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