/AA/ Elyria, Ohio (Signal High) —– Elyria police are under investigation after using military-style, flash-bang devices to raid a home where an infant was on a ventilator. Making matters worse, the police were at the wrong home.
The infant was hospitalized due to breathing problems resulting from the flash-bangs. Police would not comment on the lacking literacy or navigation that led to them raiding the wrong house, but were only too pleased to claim that flash-bangs do not contain chemical agents as if it somehow improved their compound blunder.
According to Wikipedia, flash-bangs are a pyrotechnic metal-oxidant mix of magnesium or aluminum and an oxidizers such as potassium perchlorate or potassium nitrate. They are a military device, used for close combat, to distract and defeat the enemy. Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not have an anything about ‘wrong address’.
Some have asked why police have such devices in the first place, while others wonder how a whole team of people could have picked the wrong house. Signal High News Corporation will continue to follow this story, just to see if the Elyria police eventually fumble their way to the right house or start being a little more apologetic for their incompetence.
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