Grandmother says police injured her

A 57-year-old southeast Houston grandmother has filed a complaint against HPD, accusing officers of knocking her to the ground and injuring her while they were responding to a domestic violence call at her home Sunday.

Here's how the woman, Rose Smith — who KHOU calls Rose LeDay — describes what happened: Early Sunday, she returned to her house in the 7300 block of Saint Lo after attending a birthday party and found police there investigating an earlier fight between her daughter, Taywana Smith, and her boyfriend. Rose Smith said she let the cops in and cooperated with them, even when they took her daughter into custody for aggravated assault. After the officers left the house, Smith told her family, "[If] I had my gun, I would have shot him," a remark she says was directed at the boyfriend, but which police apparently misinterpreted. According to Smith and her family, the police kicked in her front door, knocking her onto the couch and then the floor, a fall that caused a gash on her forehead. Smith said HFD paramedics had to be called to take her to Ben Taub, where she was treated and released.

Smith wasn't charged, but KHOU reports she's seeking an apology from the police department. "I was in the privacy of my home," she said. "They (the officers) are the ones that overreacted — not me."