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Originally Posted by MAB32
The reason we had to look was a huge mistake made by the LAPD many years ago. From what we were told was that the LAPD went in to bang a house. They tossed flashbangs into every open window, including a second floor window. That flashbang had landed in a baby's crib with a few months old baby in it. The baby was killed instantly. With Law Enforcement work, when I was into it, everything seemed to go from west coast to east coast including all of the bad things done by both good and bad.
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Unfortunately, not all agencies are learning from the operational scars of others. And add another SWAT raid for suspected meth lab that results in no arrests or evidence.
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Grenade burns sleeping girl as SWAT team raids Billings home
A 12-year-old girl suffered burns to one side of her body when a flash grenade went off next to her as a police SWAT team raided a West End home Tuesday morning.
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A SWAT member attached it to a boomstick, a metal pole that detonates the grenade, and stuck it through the bedroom window. St. John said the grenade normally stays on the boomstick so it goes off in a controlled manner at a higher level.
However, the officer didn't realize that there was a delay on the grenade when he tried to detonate it. He dropped it to move onto a new device, St. John said. The grenade fell to the floor and went off near the girl.
"It was totally unforeseen, totally unplanned and extremely regrettable," St. John said. "We certainly did not want a juvenile, or anyone else for that matter, to get injured."
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A SWAT member attached it to a boomstick, a metal pole that detonates the grenade, and stuck it through the bedroom window. St. John said the grenade normally stays on the boomstick so it goes off in a controlled manner at a higher level.
However, the officer didn't realize that there was a delay on the grenade when he tried to detonate it. He dropped it to move onto a new device, St. John said. The grenade fell to the floor and went off near the girl.
"It was totally unforeseen, totally unplanned and extremely regrettable," St. John said. "We certainly did not want a juvenile, or anyone else for that matter, to get injured."
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No arrests were made during the raid and no charges have been filed, although a police spokesman said afterward that some evidence was recovered during the search. St. John declined to release specifics of the drug case, citing the active investigation, but did say that "activity was significant enough where our drug unit requested a search warrant."