The mayor of Elyria has ordered a probe after the woman who lives at the home accused police of raiding the wrong house, an incident that she said left her baby with severe burns.

The mayor of Elyria, Ohio, has ordered an investigation after a woman alleged that police officers who raided her home had the wrong address and deployed flash-bang devices that sent her 1-year-old to the hospital with burns.

Police have offered a conflicting account of what happened Jan. 10, saying in a statement Friday that they had executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child did not “sustain any apparent, visible injuries.”

Courtney Price says audio from her Ring camera proves them wrong. In a clip shared exclusively with NBC News on Tuesday, someone can be heard saying “it’s the wrong house.” It is not clear who made the remark because the camera fell to the ground and went dark after police deployed the flash-bang devices.

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    10 months ago

    Police have offered a conflicting account of what happened Jan. 10, saying in a statement Friday that they had executed a search warrant at the correct address and the child did not “sustain any apparent, visible injuries.”

    Never ever, ever, believe a police statement of any kind. Police reps are gangsters and liars.

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      Honestly at this point I feel like if I was on a jury for some court case and some of the evidence was the testimony of a police officer, that’d probably make me less confident of whatever they had said than if they had said nothing at all. When a profession has every incentive to lie, little consequence to doing so, and in some cases consequences for revealing the lies of one’s coworkers, there is precious little room for credibility.

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      Every public school should have a class where you get to read the police report about George Floyd’s death, and then you see the video.

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      Based on historic police statements, the fact it conflicts at all should let you know it’s full of lies. Usually they get their story straight AND still lie, the fact that they can’t even do that is damning imo.