A lawsuit filed by a Montgomery County, Maryland, firefighter claims police improperly raided his home in 2019 while carrying out a no-knock warrant and “terrorized” his family, including his 13-year-old daughter and his wife who was on in-home dialysis treatment and had a catheter in place at the time.
The lawsuit filed by Hernan Palma and his family claims the police wrongly raided their house to arrest the son of a tenant who rented out the basement.
The lawsuit claims that during the no-knock warrant, the police stormed the upstairs part of the family’s home early in the morning of Sept. 13, 2019 and beat Hernan, used excessive force against his wife and daughter, and caused an extreme amount of damage to their home.