Man claims police entered his home without a warrant, then threaten to arrest him for recording them.
Haverhill, MA- After receiving a neighbor’s complaint about a disturbance, Haverhill police officers knocked on Hector Nunez’s door Saturday morning to investigate.
Nunez, who had just gotten home with his wife, asked who was knocking.
“They said, ‘police,’ and I thought it was my friend joking around,” he said in a phone interview with Photography is Not a Crime Wednesday night – 12 hours after I had posted the video of his encounter with police that left some questions unanswered.
Nunez, 23, opened the door and discovered it was, in fact, three police officers who began asking questions.
“When I opened the door, they wanted to speak to my wife, but she was on the back porch smoking a cigarette,” he said. "They wanted to check on her welfare."
“I told them to go around back and talk to her.”
In other words, he was not allowing them into his home. And they did not have a warrant.
“The cop then says I’m a wise-ass and pushes me down and walks inside,” Nunez said. “I ran after him and told him, ‘you assaulted me.”
“He turns around and takes a swing at me. Then my wife comes back inside and said ‘what are you doing in my home?”
That was when Nunez ran into his bedroom and turned the camera on, which shows the officers standing outside his bedroom door, proving that they did enter his home without a warrant.
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Latest info. about Haverhill, MA police story 1/16/12:
http://www.pixiq.com/article/man-refuses-to-open-door-for-cops-while-video-recording