Restoration 10:10

Early one morning just as the sun was rising…. in the town of Bolton UK . An angry looking police officer wielded a big sledgehammer. He hurled it at the front door window of a house. The glass shattered instantly and a hole appeared. Within seconds seven burly riot clad policemen piled into the premises. ‘POLICE’ they shouted. The drug dealers had no means of escaping justice. But unfortunately the dawn police raid was carried out on the wrong house. The officers had accidentally targeted the home of an innocent woman in her 50’s.  A statement from Greater Manchester Police read: "As part of an ongoing operation to target drug-related crime in Bolton , officers entered the wrong house. GMP has apologised to the occupant and will ensure that the damage to the property is repaired. Officers will be reviewing what went wrong in order to make sure this doesn't happen again”.  I don’t think the raid highlights a catalogue of police abuse. Neither does it fall into the area of wrongly targeting civilians, especially as other related raids were successful. Police arrested 21 people, seized cash, two cars, an imitation firearm and a quantity of drugs. Nevertheless it sure was a ham-fisted operation. But who of us is there that’s not been clumsy at some point? We might ourselves have waded in wrongly accusing folks of stuff.  So and so, said this.  Thingy bob did that. But all the time they were innocent.