Imagine being woken up at 4am and told to get on the ground while you get arrested, treated like a criminal, threatened, have guns pointed at you and then told … sorry … wrong house … waddaygonnado
This is stuff you would expect in a third world country.
You don’t need to wake the house up to confirm the address.
I looked a bit closer at the article, and it said that the man was the one who came out of the building first, so the police wasn’t even storming the building yet when he showed up.
When you’re expecting an armed criminal, you think it’s better for the police to politely ask for the person’s ID to confirm that he has nothing to do with the operation, or remember that being within 7m of a man with a knife is being within killing range, and not take any unnecessary risks to their lives since they don’t know yet if he isn’t some armed criminal until they can safely examine him?
His own testimony states that the police hadn’t even started storming the building, so for all you know, they were in the middle of confirming they were at the right location when he suddenly came out face to face with the officers who were expecting a dangerous criminal.
Look a little closer at the article, the warrant was for a different address and the man was naked. It would’ve been extremely easy to confirm he wasn’t the right guy, and that he wasn’t armed.
Let’s say that it was the correct address and the police weren’t sexually harassing the man, why use tear gas when the guy that they believe to be the threat was already handcuffed on the ground?
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