County settles with victims of botched SWAT raid

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Montgomery County has agreed to pay $30,000 to a family whose door was knocked in and their apartment searched at 4 a.m. by a SWAT team that went to the wrong address.

The county had earlier offered the family a “couple of movie passes” to compensate for the botched raid, according to American Civil Liberties Union records filed in court. The ACLU represented Nancy Njoroge, a Kenyan immigrant who was at home with her two teenage children when her apartment was raided.

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