Alan C. Posted January 31, 2013 Posted January 31, 2013 Woman Sues Police Over ‘Flash Grenade’ SWAT Raid An Indiana woman falsely raided by a SWAT team is suing the city of Evansville and the police department after cops smashed down her door and threw flash grenades into her home in response to “threatening” Internet posts that she wasn’t even responsible for “Police came up empty-handed in a search for evidence about threatening Internet posts but only after damaging the house, handcuffing the woman and her granddaughter and seizing their computers... Police claim the raid...was justified due to Internet posts traced back to 68-year-old Louise Milan’s house which threatened to attack the police department, but the posts had been made by a suspected gang member who had hijacked Milan’s wi-fi connection because it was not password protected. The lawsuit states that the actions of the officers “were done with malicious intent to cause severe mental and emotional distress to Milan.” After smashing Milan’s window and her storm door, police threw two flash grenades into the home before ordering Milan and her daughter onto the floor at gunpoint. The two were handcuffed and paraded in front of their neighbors before police seized computers and a cellphone. The police even ensured that a news camera crew was there to document the raid in order to “memorialize” the incident. Alleged gang member Derrick Murray, who lived nearby, later admitted to a federal court that he had used his smartphone to hijack Milan’s wi-fi connection to make the threatening posts. "We're not going to let these types of people take over and have us scared in our own homes." The irony. [view:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjSwkU_Q-as:640:390]
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