Kim Layson was on her way to drop her daughter off at school when her boyfriend, Stephen Ranieri, called to tell her that her home security system had been triggered unexpectedly.

Metropolitan Police Department SWAT officers and armored vehicles had rolled in, shredding her two-story home’s front, back, and garage entrances. Police were serving a search warrant for a man, but it turned out he hadn’t lived at the address in years, having been a resident there before Layson bought the house.

Since then, the Metropolitan Police Department said it would be covering the damages from the Aug. 21 raid on Layson’s home and that Layson wasn’t part of any criminal investigation. But Layson said the trauma she suffered was incalculable.

“I appreciate that they are paying for the physical damage, b

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