The family of a 4-year-old is claiming in a lawsuit that Chicago police crashed the boy's birthday party with guns drawn, pouring peroxide on his presents and leaving his birthday cake smashed.
Chicago Police with guns drawn raid wrong home, crash 4-year-old's birthday, family claims
The mother, Stephanie Bures, and other plaintiffs in the suit allege the officers had the wrong house in the Feb. 10 raid. The suspect they were looking for had not been a resident of the address for almost five years, the suit says.Bures and her family were celebrating the birthday of her son, T.J., in their basement apartment on the city's South Side, when 17 officers raided their home, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Chicago on Tuesday.
Police"poured peroxide on his presents,""trashed" the apartment,"screamed profanity and insults," and left the boy's birthday cake"smashed," according to a news release from the family's attorney, Al Hofeld, Jr., on Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that the police behavior during the raid violated the constitutional rights of the children and their family, and traumatized T. J. and his sister.
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