A Massachusetts family wants answers after a SWAT team raided the wrong home.
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The Telegram & Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1POM8RZ ) state police spokesman David Procopio said Monday there will be a wide-ranging review.
Marianne Diaz and her fiancé say they were getting ready for work Wednesday morning when it happened. She says a female officer later frisked her even though she was naked.
After officers failed to turn up any drugs, weapons or the target of their warrant, Diaz said they started murmuring to one another.
Diaz explained. Her daughter suffers from a disability, leaving Diaz with concerns about lasting effects of the trauma.
“It was terrorizing and the worst thing I’ve ever been through in my life”.
Diaz has asked the city and police department to investigate why the raid was permitted in the first place, but prosecutors have already said it “was executed in the manner it was for the safety of all involved”. The person who used to live at the apartment does have a criminal record, but Diaz and her family have never been trouble with law.
District Attorney Joseph Early said that State Police acted on the best intelligence available, a warrant filed by a trooper who said a trusted source told him that the intended suspect, “Mr. Jackson, ” was there.
Police have raided the apartment before, but Diaz moved in back in May with her fiance and two children.
“I just want there to be a full-on investigation, and give us an explanation as to why they did this to my family and why they terrorized us the way they did”, the upset mother said. “They told me to shut the f*ck up”.
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Alequin, however, told the Globe that part of the issue is that no one is saying anything at all. My fiancee is hysterical.
