Posted on 06/20/2025 9:05:45 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A federal judge has ordered the city of McKinney to pay almost $60,000 plus interest to 81-year-old Vicki Baker.
Why the big payday? Baker’s home was torn apart by a SWAT team during a 2020 police standoff.
Baker took the city to court after her house became the battleground for a high-stakes manhunt, reported WFAA. McKinney police unleashed tear gas, explosives, and tactical vehicles on the property while chasing a fugitive who had barricaded himself inside.
Insurance plans do not cover “acts of the government” and the city refused to pay for the damage, so Vicki joined forces with the Institute for Justice (IJ) to file a lawsuit in March 2021.
“I’ve just learned that my battle with the city of McKinney is coming to an end,” Baker said in a statement on June 5. “Judge Mazzant has, once again, ruled that I am due just compensation under the Texas Constitution.”......
The incident left more than $50,000 in damage to the house, according to Baker, with her insurance covering only the destruction caused by Little, not the police’s tactical incursion.
The city of McKinney initially refused to pay, citing sovereign immunity, a legal shield that often protects cities from liability unless waived or overturned by a judge.
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I bet she only got 36K.
Lawyers suck.
Glad to hear it.
But burn yourself with a french fry at McDonalds and get millions....
$50k no. The precedent absolutely would have.
Any way despite their tiny fisted tantrum about how they should be able to have room to destroy anything they please and not clean up their mess they now have to pay. And they have exposed themselves to the world as being jerks.
And they now have a precedent set that they MUST pay. Oops!
Being mean and stupid hurts.
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