Are you sure they had the right address.
We've often seen warrants where they got the house number or the block wrong.
And thereby went to the wrong house.
Can victims of police mistakes sue for damages despite immunity? Supreme Court case could clear the way.
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A police SWAT team bursts into a home with little warning, only to quickly realize that it's the wrong address and the occupants inside are innocent victims of the officers' mistake.
The scenario has played out in American communities for years -- sometimes resulting from bad intelligence, others from inadvertent officer errors -- often leaving property damaged and families traumatized.
Ex: Trina Martin, her 7-year-old son Gabe, and Trina's partner, Toi Cliatt, in their Atlanta home in 2017 when they their house was wrongly raided by FBI and SWAT agents who were serving an arrest warrant for a neighbor accused of gang activity.
The USSC decision: A unanimous Supreme Court said a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.