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Family Wins Legal Battle After Wrongful Raid | Wilmington News
A federal judge has greenlit a lawsuit against North Carolina law enforcement after a botched, late-night raid on a family’s home—where officers, misled by a faulty cellphone ping and a mistaken visual of a Nissan, stormed the property armed and holding children at gunpoint. The family’s car was a different model, older, and legally registered to them—not the suspect they were supposedly hunting. The ruling stripped officers of qualified immunity, opening the door for accountability over false warrant claims and procedural violations, including ignoring the knock-and-announce rule. Now, the…
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