In May, Alecia Phonesavanh and her son were visiting relatives after their Wisconsin home burned down. In the middle of the night, a Georgia SWAT team burst in the home and tossed a flash grenade that landed in the boy's playpen,
critically injured her 19-month-old son:
"He's in the burn unit. We go up to see him and his whole face is ripped open. He has a big cut on his chest," Phonesavanh said. "He's only 19 months old. He didn't do anything."
Officers were conducting the raid after an informant said he bought $50 worth of drugs from someone in the house.
No money, no weapons of any kind were found in the home.
Compounding the family's tragedy after the raid, Georgia officials said they would NOT pay any of the toddler's medical bills.
Now the family is rightfully outraged at the latest injustice: no charges for any of the officers involved in the military-style SWAT raid.
A Habersham County grand jury has decided not to charge any of the law enforcement officers involved in the botched drug raid that disfigured a toddler.
No drugs. No guns. No charges. A permanently scarred family and a young boy who spent five weeks in the hospital clinging to life. All over an alleged $50 drug buy. Isn't it time for this war to end?
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