A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that found South Bend police can’t be held liable for damages they caused to a home they wrongly raided.
The three-judge appeals panel for the U.S. 7th Circuit pointed to a ruling in a similar Wisconsin case in denying South Bend homeowner Amy Hadley’s complaint.
In 2022 South Bend and St. Joseph County police, armed with a warrant, raided Hadley’s home in the 1800 block of East Calvert Street. They shattered windows with tear-gas cannisters, threw flash-bang grenades through the front door, entered the house, and ransacked it…