FIRST ON 12 UPDATE: Chattanooga homeowner addressed council after police “mistakenly” raid their home

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – An ATF operation sent agents to a local family’s home… only they say it was the wrong home.

Chattanooga city council members said at the city council meeting that they will look into what happened.

The homeowner is a pastor, and also a school teacher.

He says that he teaches his students to respect the law.

When he thinks back to what happened last week, he says it was wrong and he doesn’t know how you explain this to them.

In our exclusive interview, he says that’s going before the city council tonight.. to demand answers.

One of the kids in the home said “two people were pointing guns in the door”.

Rony Palicier says sarcastically, “Obviously, we ‘have’ to be harboring another black human being because there’s no way we don’t know this human being.”

This family says last Wednesday at 2:00 am AFT agents forced them from their bed.

A US Marshall’s agent says they assisted in the operation along with Chattanooga Police to execute a state warrant for a fugitive in an ATF investigation.

Tameka Parker says the agent, “didn’t believe anything. They automatically criminalized me told me they were going to put me in jail [and] that they knew, that they had proof that I was involved in something.”

Only this family says it was the wrong house and potentially a case of mistaken identity.

Jesse Parker says, “they showed me a picture of a guy that I’ve never seen before but they declared that I knew him [and] that he was in our house house.”

Palicier says, “Because of the way I look and I don’t prescribe to the corporate image I was already singled out. I was the only one here that was handcuffed.”

Tameka Parker says, “There is nothing that would’ve connected us to that individual in the first place so I want to see some change occurred from the situation.”

Parker’s children were in the home, all under the age of 13, and says police ordered them all from there beds, to stand out side without letting them put on shoes.

The child says the agents came to the door yelling, “get up, get up, get up.”

Jesse Parker says, “they apologized and told me that they have a job to do and I told them ‘now if I was white this would not have happened with me and these children’.”

“He told me I need to change my number because it was associated with a person who they were looking for but I’ve never had a problem with that number before,” says Tameka Parker.

Palicier believes, “We have a responsibility to not allow the police to do this, not [ask] why do the police keep doing this.”

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The family says things like this are disheartening.

It happened last Tuesday night and they plan to go before city council this week.

They say their door was closed, but they believe it may have been unlocked.

The homeowner says his daughter, son in law, and his grandchildren were pulled from their beds around 2 am and police eventually apologized for the mix up.

We spoke with them in an interview you’ll see only on News 12.

We are still trying to determine what agencies were present for the raid.