Chicago police with disguised weapons attack her husband's home, announces the death of the 4-year-old

March 27, 2019, 7:30 pm GMT

By Farnoush Amiri

The family of a 4 year old child claims in a lawsuit that Chicago police had organized the boy's birthday party with unsheathed guns, spreading peroxide on his gifts and leaving his cake Broken birthday.

The mother, Stephanie Bures, and other plaintiffs in the suit allege that the police had had the wrong house during the February 10 raid. The suspect they were looking for had not been resident at the address for nearly five years, the trial said.

Chicago police told NBC News that she was not commenting on the ongoing litigation.

Bures and his family were celebrating the birthday of his son, TJ, in their basement apartment in the city's south end, when 17 officers broke into their homes, according to the lawsuit filed. Tuesday in federal court in Chicago.

The police entered the house with their weapons pointed at T.J. and his sister, Samari, 7, as well as other relatives, according to the complaint.

"The children were afraid of being shot, as well as their families," says the lawsuit.

Police "poured peroxide on his gifts", "ransacked" the apartment, "shouted profanations and insults", and left the boy's birthday cake "broken", according to a statement from the Family lawyer, Al Hofeld, Jr., Tuesday.

According to the statement, the police officers "illegally interrogated" the two children without the presence of their parents and "joked and laughed throughout the raid".

The lawsuit alleges that the behavior of the police during the raid violated the constitutional rights of the children and their families and traumatized T. J. and his sister.

The actions of the officers "were not simply the product of an avoidable mistake that resulted from botched police work, but they were demonstrating excessive, unnecessary, unreasonable force and without legal justification, "says the trial.

The family's attorney said his firm had conducted an online search on the target targeted by the police and had been able to quickly determine the current address of the man.

Hofeld also said that the raid was not an isolated incident and that the Bures family's lawsuit was the "fourth in a series of lawsuits for excessive force against the city of Chicago," alleging that the police Chicago owned firearms and terrorized families in the south and west. Sides. "