A truck was stolen. An iphone was in it.
The phone indicated it was in a neighborhood of 6 houses.
Cops get a warrant to search one of them, assuming the
phone was there, & not in the others. SWAT arrives in
an armored vehicle with 8 militarily armed cops.
Tear her home apart. Arrest her. Nothing found.
No apologies. Cops merely departed.
Lawsuit filed Dec 1. Taxpayers are gonna really
bend over & spread'm for this brutal incompetence.
Denver SWAT raids 77-year-old's Montbello home, no evidence found | 9news.com
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Ruby Johnson, a 77-year-old grandmother, was watching TV in her
Montbello home when she heard a loudspeaker call from outside – it was Denver Police asking anyone inside to come out with their hands up.
Body camera video obtained by 9NEWS shows Johnson, appearing confused and weary, approaching officers outside in a black robe and bonnet with her glasses on her forehead. She looks around, uncertain about what’s going to happen.
“I didn’t want them coming in there shooting,” Johnson said. “I came out, and then they asked me, ‘Do you have a gun on you?’ I said, ‘No, why would I have a gun on me?’”
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Montbello residents who witnessed the SWAT team at Johnson’s home question why police executed the warrant – in a case of a stolen vehicle and guns – that hinged almost entirely on the Apple tracking software Find My iPhone.
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As officers searched her home, Johnson was waiting in the back of a nearby police car. She said the experience was traumatizing and led her to feel unsafe in the home she has lived in for about 40 years.
“When I start thinking about it, tears start coming down,” she said.
Johnson is a single mother who raised her kids in the area. She no longer wants her children or grandchildren to visit her because she fears the police could come back and hurt them.
Rita Whittington first befriended Johnson more than 20-years-ago in church. She said she has noticed her friend has changed since the warrant, with a new “sadness” she has not seen before.
“It’s still hurting us. It’s still affecting her,” Whittington said. “Until we see her whole again, I want to see her better than she was. I want to see her whole again, smiling again, at peace again, that feeling of violation – I want her healed of that.”
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