Brickbat: Nobody Home

The owner of a house mistakenly raided by the police, resulting in an injury to a 17-month-old living in the house, said she has told police repeatedly that the man they were looking for did not live there and had never lived there. Shivani Tiwari of Medina, Ohio, said she first heard of the man when police approached her as she prepared the home for a new tenant to move in. She said she let the cops inside to see the place was empty and told them she didn't recognize any of the names they asked about. She later gave them contact information for previous tenants when they asked for it. She said police later returned when she called about threats from a neighbor and when the tenant filed a protective order. "On multiple occasions, police have visited that property. How could you not know who's living there?" she said. "They had the opportunity to verify the identity of people living in the property."
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The computer told them the bad guy lived there. The only way to fix that situation is for police to give the computer a new address for the bad guy. This based on a similar situation I read about in Massachusetts.
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This is another of those Reason stories where I suspect there's something important they're leaving out.
Yes, this!!! Twat they are deliberately NOT telling us (which is WAAAY relevant) is that the 17-month-old living in the house, who was injured, DESERVED to be injured! Why? Because this 17-month-old, in a previous lifetime, was Idi Amin! All of that bad karma must be PAID for, dammit!!!!
This is what happens when someone refuses and officer's sexual advances.
Yep. Just gotta dig a bit.
Tiwari bought the house in 2019 as a property to manage with her family. She said the suspect police were looking for has never lived at the home.
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https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2024/01/how-could-you-not-know-whos-living-there-owner-of-raided-home-questions-elyria-police-tactics.html
Redia Jennings, who has been renting the home since February 2023, said Elyria Police have come to the house multiple times before last week, searching for the same suspect, who she said is a previous tenant.
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https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2024/01/elyria-mayor-opens-investigation-on-police-raid-which-family-says-hospitalized-baby.html
Bit of conflicting testimony there.
They were looking for a burglary suspect, but the person they were after has not lived at the home for more than a year, according to current tenant Redia Jennings.
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https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2024/01/video-elyria-police-release-officer-worn-footage-from-raid-under-investigation.html
Now, bear in mind that between 2019 and 2022, there was a family living there. They moved out in Dec. 2022, and the house was renovated until Feb. 2023, when Jennings then took tenancy.
So either Tiwari is lying, or Jennings is lying. Maybe both.
Officers were executing a search warrant at the home, which was the correct address on the warrant, police said in a press release Friday.
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https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2024/01/elyria-mayor-opens-investigation-on-police-raid-which-family-says-hospitalized-baby.html
So much for "mistakenly raided," Reason.
Also, continuing down the rabbit hole, this is telling:
“There’s been five different occasions that detectives and CPS and officers have showed up at my house looking for (the suspect). They’ve been told numerous times he does not live here,” she said.
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https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2024/01/baby-in-icu-after-elyria-police-raid-home-searching-for-previous-tenant-family-says.html
So, the cops and CPS (and in another article, truancy officers) had reason to believe he was there? Get this:
We are not naming the suspect because we’re told he is 14. The search warrant said police were looking for firearms involved in a burglary.
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https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/01/12/elyria-police-release-statement-after-using-flash-bangs-outside-home-with-sick-toddler-during-search/
That same article says, "Jennings said his family now lives down the block." and the first article says, "Tiwari manages several properties in Elyria but said it has become more difficult to find renters because of crime in the city."
Now I'm not going to draw a necessary connection between those two things - just pointing it out, because Reason deigns not to.
Assuming they even bothered researching it as they breathlessly churned out yet another ACAB article. But at the end of the day, sure seems like the players in this little story seem to know a little more than they were willing to cooperate with police on.
I read every word of ONE of you links at https://www.cleveland19.com/2024/01/12/elyria-police-release-statement-after-using-flash-bangs-outside-home-with-sick-toddler-during-search/ ...
It backs up Reason's "take" here! Heavy-handed pigs ARE at fault, and the the 17-month-old is NOT at fault! And YOU seem to be full of shit!
How do you figure?
I never said the 17mo kid was at fault.
Oh, and from your link:
Redia Jennings and her husband have rented the home for the past year. She said the police knew the person they were looking for didn’t live here but she said he does not live at their home and hasn’t lived there in more than a year.
Jennings said his family now lives down the block.
She ever tell the cops that? Or was she providing cover for him?
Guarantee you that every record on file has the kid living at that address. School, medical, tax, juvie, CPS – you name it. That’s why they were convinced he was there. And they had no reason whatsoever to believe otherwise.
Or neither, as it says in the article you are quoting from “Tiwari bought the house in 2019 as a property to manage with her family.” So probably only had the two tenants, maybe three.
Do you know how much work it took to get that address? You want them to do more work finding another one?
"Hulk smash"
But it was safer to raid a place they knew had no weapon-bearing violent criminals. Everyone got home that night (on the police side, anyway).
"Tenants have told her that they are leaving to buy houses in different cities. She said it’s because the city’s police department is “failing.”
I think this is the bigger issue, at least in urban areas. You could copy and past that line to any number of areas including Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans, DC, Oakland, Memphis, Cleveland, Albuquerque, Detroit, Birmingham, Chicago...It has literally gone to shit on a fundamental level, and it's not going to get any better anytime soon. This is a societal breakdown, and Blues are signaling their virtue and swinging their dicks all the way.
This is why journalism is dead.
Because people can refute journalists lies --of whatever type-- before the pixels are dry on the screen.
If they were real journalists, they wouldn't have to be constantly refuted.