Paramilitary SWAT officers deployed a flashbang grenade into a sleeping child's bedroom, as they executed an early morning raid on an innocent family. The grenade burned a 12-year-old girl, and created a hole in the wall as it "blew the nails out of the drywall."
All this violence in order to stop people from getting high. By the way, no drugs were found.
The shell-shocked family asks why the raiders don't just knock on the front door like men.
Grenade burns sleeping girl as SWAT team raids Billings home
All this violence in order to stop people from getting high. By the way, no drugs were found.
The shell-shocked family asks why the raiders don't just knock on the front door like men.
Grenade burns sleeping girl as SWAT team raids Billings home
She questioned why police would take such actions with children in the home and why it needed a SWAT team.
"A simple knock on the door and I would've let them in," she said. "They said their intel told them there was a meth lab at our house. If they would've checked, they would've known there's not."
She and her two daughters and her husband were home at the time of the raid. She said her husband, who suffers from congenital heart disease and liver failure, told officers he would open the front door as the raid began and was opening it as they knocked it down.
When the grenade went off in the room, it left a large bowl-shaped dent in the wall and "blew the nails out of the drywall," Fasching said.