Another "Wrong Address" Payout

Are these warrants being written by DEI hires?

• A jury on Wednesday awarded $5.74 million in damages to a Chicago family who accused police of violating their civil rights in a botched raid of their home in 2018.

  Ebony Tate and her family filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the officers involved in the raid, accusing police of breaking down their door in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in August 2018, and pointing guns at them. Investigations found officers were in the wrong house and did not properly vet information from a paid informant.

As to the allegations that SWAT pointed weapons at occupants of the address, that might have happened - no Officer on a Search Warrant enters an occupied dwelling with weapons holstered and rifles slung. That would be tactically unsound to say the least. 

But once control of the residence has been established, weapons ARE holstered and rifle ARE slung. In most cases, SWAT leaves following entry/securing and leaves the actual searching, arresting and paperwork to the teams that wrote the warrant.

In this case, it didn't stop them from becoming Exhibit A, but procedurally, we really don't see an issue.