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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by eloff on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:20AM (#21408370)
That doesn't seem out of control. This man was firing at police. That warrants a SWAT response. You've got a very high risk of officers getting killed.

What is fucked up is that there's no law that requires the government to compensate the homeowner.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by thomascgalvin on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:20AM (#21409086)
> This man was firing at police. That warrants a SWAT response.

Absolutely. And there is no reason they couldn't have cut utilities to the property, set up a perimeter, and waited him out.

One of the biggest problems with SWAT teams today is that they seem to feel that they have failed if they don't go in all-a-Rambo. Protocol should be just the opposite: the most successful missions are the ones where a cop never has to fire a gun.

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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by eloff on Thursday October 31, 2019 @11:35AM (#21409901)
Yeah, that would have been better, at least given what we know of the situation.
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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by claudeganon on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:29AM (#21408474)
Maybe just let the guy run off with the clothes in the first place? The idea that we have to defend a corporation’s property rights at the level of a SWAT team having a street battle with a shoplifter is the height of militarized insanity.
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Re:Police Owe Nothing to Man Whose Home They Blew Up, Appeal... by eloff on Thursday October 31, 2019 @09:34AM (#21408516)
Usually police don't even respond to shoplifting on that level. I'm not sure what happened here.
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