FBI Agents Raided Wrong Georgia Home, Pointed Guns While Shouting Orders Then Returned to Leave a Card. Now, the Supreme Court Will Hear the Family’s Case After Lower Court Tossed Their Suit

An Atlanta family who was denied damages and remedies by the federal government after armed FBI agents mistakenly raided their home in 2017 will get their case heard in the Supreme Court in April. In the early morning hours of Oct. 18, 2017, Trina Martin, her then-7-year-old son Gabe Watson, and her ex-boyfriend Toi Cliatt were jolted awake by the sound of a flashbang grenade inside their house, indicating that a six-member squad of a SWAT team stormed the home. Trina Martin (left) and her 14-year-old son Gabe Watson (right) filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government after the FBI wrongly raided their home in 2017. (Photo: Institute for Justice) The agents immediately seized Cliatt and threw him to the ground and handcuffed him while pointing guns and shouting questions. When Cliatt told them the address — 3756 Denville Trace — the unit realized they were in the wrong house. The agents were supposed to raid a home that was just one block away on a cross street — 3741 Landau Lane — and housed a man named Joseph Riley who was the target of their warrant in a gang activity investigation, according to federal court filings from the years-long...