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Ohio mother claims flash-bang explosion during mistaken police raid injured her 17-month-old son

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Ohio mother claims flash-bang explosion during mistaken police raid injured her 17-month-old son

An Ohio mother is demanding an investigation because, she says, a mistaken police raid caught on a doorbell camera injured her little boy.

Dozens of police officers targeted her aunt’s home in a Cleveland suburb last Wednesday. The woman said a flash-bang explosion blew out a window right next to her son, who was on a ventilator at the time.

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A neighbor’s doorbell camera captured police executing a search warrant on a house in Elyria, a suburb of Cleveland, last Wednesday. 

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Police say the search was appropriate, and they dispute the woman’s story.

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The Elyria Police Special Response Team said it was executing a search warrant for a minor connected to a burglary. Ring video captured the raid as the police broke down the front door.

Courtney Price said police broke a window and deployed a flash-bang near her 17-month-old son, Waylon, who was already on a ventilator.

“All I seen was lights flashing and smoke coming into the house,” Price said. “I didn’t know what to do because there was guns pointed at me. I wanted to run to him, but I knew if I ran to him … they could’ve shot.”

Moments later, Price was taken outside and handcuffed. “I kept screaming, ‘My baby, my baby is on a ventilator. My baby’s in here.’”

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Courtney Price’s son, Waylon. 

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Price said Waylon was hospitalized with burns to his body, and was covered in glass and smoke. “His diagnosis is chemical pneumonitis from the chemicals in the flash-bang,” Price said.

But the Elyria Police say they and Price confirmed the child did not sustain any visible injuries at the scene, and that “any allegation suggesting the child was exposed to chemical agents … is not true.”

Price’s aunt, Redia Jennings, has rented this home for a year. She said the police have come multiple times searching for a suspect that didn’t live there, and she says she doesn’t feel safe anymore.

“All of our furniture was broke,” said Jennings. “It’s now stained. They just walked all over everything.”

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The family plans to take legal action against the department.

Meanwhile, the city’s mayor said he is “deeply concerned,” and is reviewing bodycam footage which will be released to the public as an investigation into the department’s conduct is underway.

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The White House unveiled new plaques near the Oval Office mocking some of President Trump’s predecessors. The new display distorts history and aligns with Mr. Trump’s worldview.

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The terrorist group has been linked to the mass shooting in Australia and a deadly attack in Syria. What do these two attacks reveal about the group’s strength?Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and Middle East correspondent Jane Arraf about how the Islamic State has adapted in a post-caliphate world and what American forces are doing in Syria.Email the show at sourcesandmethods@npr.orgNPR+ supporters hear every episode without sponsor messages and unlock access to our complete archive. Sign up at plus.npr.org.
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Videos show rebels on the move in eastern DRC city Uvirapublished at 12:49 GMT

Peter Mwai
BBC Verify senior journalist

We have verified video showing fighters belonging to the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group on the move in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), after M23 announced a withdrawal from the city of Uvira in South Kivu province which it seized a week ago.

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The M23 had taken contorl of Uvira despite a ceasefire deal agreed between the governments of Rwanda and DRC and had come under increasing diplomatic pressure to withdraw its forces from the city.

The DRC government has reacted with scepticism, with a spokesperson asking on XL “Where are they going? How many were there? What are they leaving behind in the city? Mass graves? Soldiers disguised as civilians?”

We can’t tell where they are heading, but in the footage we have verified the fighters, together with vehicles, move north past the Uvira police headquarters.

We confirmed where the clips were filmed by matching the distinctively painted road kerbs, buildings and trees to satellite imagery.

The leader of the Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC), a coalition of rebel groups which includes the M23 group, had announced on Monday that the group would withdraw from the city as a “trust-building measure”.

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It followed a request from the US which has been mediating between the governments of Rwanda and DRC.

The rebels remained present in the city after the announcement but on Wednesday M23 spokesperson Willy Ngoma announced the group had begun withdrawing troops. The group said it intends to complete the withdrawal today, but has warned against militarisation.

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