Denver PD Sued After SWAT Team Raid Of 77-Year-Old Woman’s House Based On Nothing More Than Phone Pings

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Once inside her home, Johnson said, they smashed a door to her garage with a battering ram, broke apart a ceiling panel, broke the head off of a beloved collectible doll and left the house in disarray.Prior reporting on the raid by KUSA exposed other issues with the events leading up to this raid — issues that are definitely going to cause problems for the Denver PD as it defends itself against this lawsuit.[Jeremy] McDaniel said he didn’t think police treated his case with urgency, even after he told them about the stolen guns.The affidavit presented the data as identifying Johnson’s home as the source of the pings, despite the included screenshot showing an area encompassing six different homes and two city blocks.Re: It is positively sickening how trivial the effort needed is to think of how a court could spin the situation in order to grant QI to the thugs who trashed the house just because they could."

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