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Black Family Files Lawsuit After Kentucky SWAT Team Hold Them At Gunpoint In Search for Marijuana Grower That Was No Where To Found

A Kentucky police department after 14 SWAT officers raided a Black couple’s home last year and allegedly held them and their three children at gunpoint after claiming the couple grow and sell marijuana. Ashlea Burr and Mario Daugherty have now filed a lawsuit that alleges Louisville Police officers violated their 4th Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when officers raided their home according to the Atlanta Black Star.

The incident occurred on Oct. 26, 2016, when the SWAT team “assault rifles on minor children” according to the suit. The suit claimed the raid was done on false pretense. Detective Joseph Tapp said in a search affidavit the lawsuit cited “a black male named Anthony McClain is growing marijuana and has multiple bags of marijuana packaged for sale in the front bedroom” and that “a white female named Holly was his girlfriend and owned the house.”

“Those representations were false, made willfully and/or in reckless disregard for the truth, and even the most basic due diligence would have revealed their falsity,” the couple attorney Josh Rose said in the lawsuit. The suit also said Burr isn’t white and there was no one named Anthony McClain or Holly lived in the home.

The lawsuit claims Burr “shielded her children from the rifles” and that both she and Daughtery were “extremely frightened that their children would be maimed or killed and/or that they themselves would be maimed or killed.”

Officers “forced” Daughtery “on the ground at gunpoint,” and when one child attempted to run to her grandmother’s house, “officers drew their assault rifles on her” and telling her to get on the ground, according to the suit.

“It was cold and rainy, and (the child) was not wearing any socks, shoes or a jacket,” the suit adds.“She repeatedly requested to be taken to her grandmother’s next door, but the officers refused the requests, kept her in the cold, wet conditions, and kept their rifles on her.”

According to the lawsuit, the family seeking a jury trial and compensatory and punitive damages. Since the incident, the children have gone to counseling and experienced multiple nightmares told WDRB.

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Black Family Files Lawsuit After Kentucky SWAT Team Hold Them At Gunpoint In Search for Marijuana That Was No Where To Found