“Habersham County officials in Georgia said they will not pay for the medical expenses incurred by a 19-month-old who was badly burned by a flash grenade during a police raid.
Bounkham Phonesavanh spent weeks in a burn unit after a SWAT team’s flash grenade exploded near his face as he slept in his home on May 28, ABC affiliate WSBTV reported over the weekend.
SWAT officers launched the grenade while executing a search warrant for a drug suspect, who was not found inside the home. An investigation is reportedly underway into the handling of the case.
“I heard my baby wailing and asked one of the officers to let me hold him,” the boy’s mother, Alecia Phonesavanh, told Salon magazine in June. “He screamed at me to sit down and shut up and blocked my view, so I couldn’t see my son. I could see a singed crib, and I could see a pool of blood.” *
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss.
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