(27 Apr 2025)
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Atlanta – 25 April 2025
1. Atlanta residents Trina Martin and Toi Cliatt standing in front of home that was raided
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Trina Martin, Atlanta resident whose home was raided by FBI in 2017:
"I was the first one to wake up because I heard a really big bang, and it woke me up and I was thinking, what is going on? And from there, I told Toi, I said, ‘Toi, I think somebody is breaking into our house.’ And he was kind of groggy because he just got in himself. So when they threw in a flash bomb grenade saying… You just see the lights and hear the sound. And at that time, it startled him as well. So he popped up. We both popped up, and as I’m running towards the bedroom, I was going across the hall to get my son. Toi grabbed me to put me into our bathroom, I mean our master closet."
3. Tilt up from front stairs to door at front of home ++MUTE++
4. Toi standing in master closet
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Trina Martin, Atlanta resident whose home was raided by FBI in 2017:
"I was in a corner of the closet and it’s an agent in front of me with a gun pointing to my face with a bright light. And I was just disoriented and confused because we don’t do anything. And I did not believe they were a SWAT."
6. Front of home
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Toi Cliatt, Atlanta resident whose home was raided by FBI in 2017:
"They said, ‘Well, what’s your address?’ And so I told him the address and just immediately it just kind of got really quiet. Just all the calamity just ceased. And I was able to hear the lead officer whisper to another officer. And then I kind of heard him walking out of the room."
8. Close of window
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Toi Cliatt, Atlanta resident whose home was raided by FBI in 2017:
" I hear him say we got to go up the street and you know, basically we were at the wrong house."
10. Living room leading into side hallway of home ++MUTE++
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Trina Martin, Atlanta resident whose home was raided by FBI in 2017:
"I want see change in the way they execute their no knock warrants, and possibly just throw them out completely. Justice accountability because there has been, they know what they did was wrong, they know they messed up, but there has been no accountability at all and that is what I’m seeking. "
12. Street sign in front of home
STORYLINE:
Before dawn on October 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her and her then-boyfriend as her 7-year-old son screamed for his mom from another room.
Martin, blocked from comforting her son, cowered in disbelief for what she said felt like an eternity. But within minutes, the ordeal was over. The agents realized they had the wrong house.
On Tuesday, an attorney for Martin will go before the U.S. Supreme Court to ask the justices to reinstate her 2019 lawsuit against the U.S. government accusing the agents of assault and battery, false arrest and other violations.
A federal judge in Atlanta dismissed the suit in 2022 and the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision last year.
The Supreme Court agreed in January to take up the matter.
The key issue before the justices is under what circumstances people can sue the federal government in an effort to hold law enforcement accountable.
Martin’s attorneys say Congress clearly allowed for those lawsuits in 1974, after a pair of law enforcement raids on wrong houses made headlines, and blocking them would leave little recourse for families like her.
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