North Texas woman files complaint after she says police mistakenly kicked in her door

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A Red Oak woman says police officers responding to a domestic violence call mistakenly tried to kick in her apartment door and never announced themselves. A...

shows one officer covering the camera while knocking on the door. Then one officer begins kicking the door, as two others stand by. At one point, an officer appears to ask another if this was the right door.Officers never announced themselves as police, the woman said. Checking her Ring camera, she said saw the officers, put away her gun and opened the door. The officers told her they had the wrong apartment and she could go back inside. The lock on the door was broken, she said.

The woman said she has filed a complaint with the department. While she understands officers were trying to respond to a call, she said this could have ended in a tragedy.“Especially me being a person of color, a black woman,” she said, “it was very scary because I know that this really could have ended in a fatality.”

 

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