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Chicago police body camera captured a raid that shows police not only entering an innocent family’s home but point rifles at and interrogating children without an adult present according to CBS 2.

The news station obtained the body camera footage showing officers point guns directly at children. The clips from two raids on Krystal Archie’s home in 2019.

“They’re handling heavy artillery,” Archie said of Chicago police. “It would’ve taken one slip of your finger and my children would not be here.”

The family’s home has been raided a total of three times once in February, the second time in April and again in May of last year. The officers were reportedly on the search for a man Archie and her family claim they don’t know and have no history of ever living at the residence. Video from April 26 raid shows armed officers arriving at the home just after 8:30 p.m. breaking into the door with a battering ram. In the house, the police found Savannah Archie, 14, who was watching her siblings Telia, 11, and JJ, 7 at the time of the raid. The children were forced down to the floor as several officers rush in with their weapons pointed at them. One child began to cry.

“I didn’t do nothing,” Savannah says through tears as she lies face down. “Please do not shoot me, please, please!” “You’re not going to do this again!” she shouts, seemingly referencing the first raid in February, after which an officer orders her to “shut up.” “You’re not going to do this again!” she shouts, seemingly referencing the first raid in February, after which an officer orders her to “shut up.” The 14-year-old recalled the events of that night said officers had guns pointed at them throughout the encounter. The 7-year-old told CBS 2 that the officers “had their finger on the trigger,” as if ready to shoot. The video captures one officer being heard interrogating the children and pressing them about “where the stuff is at.” “So you stopped selling out of here? You stopped keeping it here?” one of them proceeds to ask the kids. Archie was at work when the officers barged in according to the station. Resident Stephanie Bures took legal action after over a dozen officers at her home threatening and terrorizing people there to celebrate her son’s 4th birthday last March. It was later showed that the suspect police were looking for hadn’t lived there in years. Domonique Wilson told CBS 2, officers ordered her and her children out of their home and handcuffed her 8-year-old son. Domonique Wilson told CBS 2, officers ordered her and her children out of their home and handcuffed her 8-year-old son. “They made me stand up straight and [put] my hands just behind my back. And they had them tight,” the boy, Royal Smart, explained. “I was worried about my sister most, because she’s only 6 years old.” CBS 2 has been looking into CPD’s botched raids for about 18 months now, however, its investigations have resulted in few answers after the police agency reportedly blocking access to public records and declined Freedom of Information Act requests. However, the department says it has taken recent steps to address its issue with wrong raids, starting with an overhaul of its search warrant policy.

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