Police who raided home should have known target already was in prison, suit alleges
Posted November 05, 2019 12:00 am
When Chicago police smashed through Jolanda Blassingame's door, threw stun grenades in her apartment and pointed assault rifles at her kids, they should've known the guy they were looking for was in prison for murder - and hadn't lived there for nine years - a federal civil rights lawsuit alleges.
Blassingame's complaint was spelled Tuesday against the Chicago Police Department and the SWAT and plainclothes officers who entered her South Side apartment in January 2015.
Blassingame has never met or even heard of a man named Derec Bell, the target of the warrant.
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