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The SWAT team, made up of six or seven officers from the sheriff's department and the Cornelia Police Department, entered the Cornelia residence of Wanis Thonetheva on the morning of May 28.
A confidential informant hours earlier had purchased methamphetamine at the house, the sheriff said.
Because Thonetheva had a previous weapons charge, officers were issued a "no-knock warrant" for the residence, Terrell said.
When the SWAT team hit the home's front door with a battering ram, it resisted as if something was up against it, the sheriff said, so one of the officers threw the flash-bang grenade inside the residence.
Once inside the house, the SWAT team realized it was a portable playpen blocking the door, and the flash-bang grenade had landed inside where a 19-month-old was sleeping, the sheriff said.
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That story is very inflamatory IMHO. While the facts of the case include the team throwing a flash-bang that burned the infant, that unfortunate and hopefully unintended event occurred during the attempted arrest of a drug dealer with a previous weapons charge.
I had to dig quite a bit to find out anything about this besides the infant being wounded.
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Authorities in Habersham County arrested five people last week at the home of a suspected drug dealer — among them was the uncle of “Baby Bou Bou,” the toddler injured last May during the execution of a controversial no-knock warrant.
According to a news release issued by the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office, members of that team, the Habersham County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Department of Corrections were acting on resident complaints about “illegal narcotic activity” when they visited the Demorest home of 41-year-old Bruce Reaves. Once inside, authorities seized half an ounce of methamphetamine and additional quantities of marijuana, oxycodone and dilaudid, the news release said.
A total of five people were arrested, including Reaves and 31-year-old Wanis Thonetheva.
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What is the real story here? The horrible evil po-lice and their counter civil-rights hi-speed gear and tactics?
Is it the collateral damage caused by misapplied tactics and misused weaponry?
Should the police department have waited until the subjects had left the house and risked a car chase or shoot out in a less contained environment?
Or maybe, just like the character Ivelda Drumgo in Hannibal (who walked around with a baby and an uzi in a sling on her chest) , some vile filth drug dealers put a baby in front of the door to keep the five-oh out.