Police goof in raid, city stalls on damages

[JonLP24]

Man stymied in pursuit of door repair compensation

Andrew Leonard, a 33-year-old chemist who has no criminal record, said he and his wife were frightened and humiliated by a mistaken no-knock raid at their Medfield home. Their dog, Figo, was not harmed during the incident. (Baltimore Sun photo)

Andrew Leonard was watching television with his wife not long after returning from Ash Wednesday services when police burst through the front door of his North Baltimore home. He was handcuffed, plunked in a chair and told to keep quiet as officers rifled through the house and interrogated him for 15 minutes about drugs and a dealer he knew nothing about.

As it turned out, police had the wrong house. The man they were looking for lived two doors down.

Leonard, a 33-year-old chemist who has no criminal record, said he and his wife, a 29-year-old credit analyst, were frightened and humiliated by the incident. But for the past two months, he's wanted just one thing from the city: for someone to pay for the damage to his front door.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-te.md.ci.raid07may07,0,5425985.story

[safeinOhio]

1. Hire Roy Black or some other big name attorney

and you'd be talking mega bucks. The city is crazy not paying for the door and pushing him to go to court.

[jody]

2. Not rare, see "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America".

[Tim01]

3. Welcome to Maryland. Baltimore at that.