Sure, they screwed up – but at least they apologized this time

And no, I'm not being facetious. This time, it wasn't regular cops or even SWAT, but full-blown federal agents who stormed into an apartment on a drug trafficking ring raid – only to realize it wasn't exactly the correct address:

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- An east Charlotte woman who's going through cancer treatment said she was startled early Wednesday morning when federal agents burst into her apartment searching for suspects in a drug trafficking ring.

"It was a case of mistaken identity," Rosie Lee Bright told Eyewitness News.

But Federal Bureau of Investigation agents didn't figure that out before they ordered her to lie on the floor and handcuffed her.

"I did ask them, ‘What happened, what happened,’ and they said it was a drug bust," Bright said.

She said the only drugs she had in the apartment on Reddman Road were to help with her breast cancer treatments.

Okay, so it does sound pretty bad. Though at least, this time they did answer the poor victim's query as to why they were storming her place to begin with, something altogether uncommon in such "mistaken identity" cases.

It turns out the two suspects they were actually looking for were in the apartment right next door. They did promptly arrest them as part of a heroin trafficking ring that had been operating in the counties of Mecklenburg and Gaston.

But then, the feds did something you definitely wouldn't expect from the regular thugs who pass for cops:

A spokeswoman for the FBI told Eyewitness News that the address mix-up appears to have been an honest mistake since agents had been working on the assumption they were targeting the right apartment.

Bright said once they realized their mistake, agents apologized and offered to pay any medical bills she might have because of the raid.

Wow, law enforcement officers who storm the wrong place – then actually take responsibility and apologize for the fuck-up? And who even agree to pay for the damages they may have caused, such as in this case, helping the poor woman through her medical problems? Now that's something you don't see every day ... though one wishes we did, for the sake of a fairer world.

(via The Agitator)