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NY Cops Raid Wrong
Apartment - Woman Dies
From Judith Moriarty
NoahsHouse@adelphia.net

5-21-3


Dear Commissioner:
 
I am sickened at the death of Alberta Sprill, age 57, who was preparing for work (6:00am) when the door crashed in, a stun gernade was launched and she handcuffed----later died, who wouldn't, of shock? Have you lost your minds? It was stated that the 'informant', now that's someone to trust, was "registered but untested". Was Alberta's death a failed test? No amount of drugs...please, is worth the death of an innocent woman. Who, Commissioner, could have been under different circumstances your wife-sister or mother! We can't stop tractor trailers with dead Mexicans and you're raiding innocent people's apartments? This policy needs to be stopped now, not just having someone go on administrative paid leave. What an insult. I am sick to death, just sick.
 
J. Moriarty of NH.
 
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5-16-3
 
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police kicked down the wrong door at a New York apartment house on Friday and a woman with a heart condition died on the way to the hospital.
 
A bungled tip about a drug dealer's cache led police to kick down the door and toss a stun grenade into the apartment of a woman with a heart condition; she died of a heart attack within an hour, police said.
 
"This is a tragedy. This should not have happened. No doubt about that," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
 
Police were led to the apartment of city employee Alberta Spruill, 57, by a registered, but apparently untested, informant, officials said. The dealer they sought lived in the same building but had been arrested by a different police unit four days earlier, they explained.
 
Spruill had just dressed for work, where she certified eligibility for civil service candidates, when the raiding party executed its "No Knock" warrant at 6 a.m., broke down her door, tossed in the grenade and handcuffed the stunned woman to a chair.
 
Police soon realized the mistake, took off the handcuffs and called an ambulance to take her to a hospital for observation.
 
While on the way to Harlem Hospital she suffered a heart attack and was pronounced dead on arrival.
 
Kelly said the "flash bang" grenades are usually used to dislodge barricaded suspects. He said that police have executed more than 1,900 warrants this year and four of those were at the wrong addresses.
 
The lieutenant who ordered use of the grenade in the misguided raid was put on administrative leave, officials said.
 
 
Comment
 
From Sam
5-22-3
 
Jeff, Stun grenades are deadly projectile throwers, not 'benign bangers' as we are led to believe. I repeat, they are deadly projective throwing grenade.


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