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Erlinda Lovelack is upset that the GSU, searched her house on Saturday and treated her family as though they were common criminals. Here's what she told us about the humiliation they faced - when she says no one in the family has any criminal history.

Erlinda Lovelack, Upset about GSU search
"5 o' clock Saturday morning while I was in my bed sleeping - I heard a noise, I thought it was my husband who got up to go to run, when I realize that he was beside me looking through the window to see who came in the yard and before anything we heard a noise at the door. It was the police they were saying 'get up and open the door or they will stomp it down.'"

"My husband got up and opened the other door because this door they had already stomp it and the key fell out. We couldn't find the key. All of them came in the house and say that they have a search warrant because they got intelligent information that we have drugs and gun at our house."

"Now my question to them is; do we look like anybody who has drugs or gun at our house. What kind of information can they get about people who don't have a police record, about people who work hard, who are putting their children though school? What do they want? Do they want us on the streets like the other people, so that they can class us? Is that what they want?"

"When they came in they ask who all is in the house and I told them that I have my mother and my kids. They woke up everybody, bring them out. I didn't have on any clothes, only a towel. They didn't even bring a female officer. My husband and my son are the only males that live in this house. My son is 12 years old and I have a 17 year old daughter and a 15 year old daughter."

"They didn't even bring a female officer to conduct their search. There were only male officers and my kids were in their sleeping clothes. I have my niece with her baby who lives downstairs. They went down there and they didn't want her to come upstairs and they didn't want us to go downstairs. My mother was here, she is almost 70 years old and she has diabetes and pressure. You know when you are diabetic you have to eat a certain time - nobody couldn't move, my mother couldn't eat. What would have happen if my mother went into a coma? I have my daughter; she has a medical condition. This entire summer we spent a lot of money on her."

"If we were selling any drugs or were doing anything illegal you think I wouldn't used the drugs to attend to my daughter's medical condition instead of having her here suffering and then now just to try deal with her condition for them to traumatize my daughter totally."

"Automatically I had to get my daughter's medication because she was having an anxiety attack. When I got up to tell my daughter to go in the room to get her pills - they told me that my daughter can't go in the room to get her pills. I have them know to try to stop me but my daughter is going for her medication. Like I said they can do their search and do what they have to do but when you all do your thing make sure that you have the right people. They came to my house and traumatize my kids and I am telling you and them the next time they think they will come to my house and traumatize my kids - I prefer they beat me or shoot me before I put my kids through that again."

Lovelack told us that the officers turned over her entire house for 5 hours and couldn't find anything.