Edwards v. City of Mount Vernon

OPINION OF THE COURT

Francesca E. Connolly, J.

On December 2, 2010, at 5:30 a.m., the City of Mount Vernon Emergency Services Unit (hereinafter ESU) executed a “no-knock” search warrant on the plaintiffs’ apartment. The warrant was obtained from a Mount Vernon City Court judge based upon information supplied by a confidential informant. At the time the warrant was executed, the plaintiff Diana Edwards, *437the two-year-old plaintiff Trystan Edwards, and nonparty Orey Warren were sleeping in a rear bedroom. The ESU team broke down the plaintiffs’ front door, detonated a “flash-bang” grenade inside…