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The Chicago Police entered in the wrong apartment with guns drawn pouring peroxide on a 4-year-old’s birthday presents and left his birthday cake smashed NBC News reports.

Stephanie Bures, the four-year-old’s mother is now filing a suit alleging the officers had the wrong house in the Feb. 10. Officers were looking for a suspect who has not been a resident of that particular address for almost five years the suit claims.

Bures and family were celebrating her son’s T.J birthday in their basement apartment on Chicago’s South Side when 17 officers raided their home according to the suit that was filed earlier this week. The officers allegedly entered the home with their guns drawn toward T.J and his 7-year-old sister Samari along with other relatives who were at the birthday party.

“The children were afraid that they and their families were going to be shot,” the lawsuit says.

According to a news release from the family’s attorney, Al Hofeld, Jr., police “poured peroxide on his presents,” “trashed” the apartment, “screamed profanity and insults,” and left T.J’s birthday cake “smashed.”

The news release also mentioned officers “unlawfully questioned” the two children without their parents present and “joked and laughed throughout the raid.”

The suit alleges police behavior during the raid violated the constitutional rights of the children and their family, and traumatized T. J. and his sister. The officers’ actions were “not just the product of an avoidable mistake that was the result of sloppy police work, but they displayed force that was excessive, unnecessary, unreasonable, and without lawful justification,” the lawsuit claims.

According to the NBC News report, Hofeld said his law firm did an online search and were able to find the police intended target suspect current address. The attorney asserts the raid was not an isolated incident and that the Bures family’s suit is the “fourth of a series of excessive-force cases against the City of Chicago alleging Chicago Police are holding guns on children and terrorizing families on the South and West Sides.”

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