The young mother said the US Marshals Office told her to 'get over it' and take a melatonin (via toofab)
"We were taking a nap and my Ring doorbell kept alerting me that there was motion detected," she explained."When I clicked on it, there were two men standing there in bulletproof vests with guns pointing at my door."
And even though she repeatedly says no one else is in the apartment, the other marshal says,"Tell him to come out with his hands up. We know he's in there. The place is surrounded."Staples said she then cracked open the door and the armed men pushed her and her baby out of the way, per."They are holding us at gunpoint, screaming, there is a gun about a foot away from her face," she told the outlet, adding that the marshals insisted,"We know Shamar is in there.
Staples said one of the officers eventually realized that they had the wrong apartment, informed the others and led the group out of her apartment and down the hallway to another one.
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