From: Michael@KIELSKY.COM (Michael Kielsky) To: AZRKBA@asu.edu Subject: SWAT team invades wrong house; 2 hurt Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:52:20 -0700 Quote from Deputy Police Chief: "Everything was done by procedure." Welcome to the future. -- Michael :-)
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1672820 Associated Press SAN ANTONIO -- Two people were injured when members of a San Antonio police SWAT team searching for guns and drugs entered the wrong apartment. "We are sitting here and then all of them arrived," 20-year-old Salvador Huerta said. Huerta and two cousins were watching television when police shattered the back glass door Wednesday night. "We were kicked and punched at least 20 times. I couldn't talk. I was good and scared." Salvador Huerta suffered a broken front tooth and swollen face. His cousin, 19-year-old Marcos Huerta, was treated and released for a cut face and bruised head. After realizing they had the wrong address, police apologized to the cousins and went to another apartment. "Everything was done by procedure," Deputy Police Chief Rudy Gonzales in Friday's editions of the San Antonio Express-News. "It was just an honest mistake made by SWAT officers at the location." Officials said the SWAT team members apparently were confused in the darkness by the group of look-alike buildings. Police plan to meet next week to review the series of events. Salvador Huerta said at least 12 officers entered the apartment. The men in the apartment thought they were being robbed. The cousins said the door was shot out with soft bullets and a concussion grenade was thrown inside, leaving a gaping hole and a black scar on the wall.
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