Posted on 10/30/2019 12:11:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
When they were finished, it looked as though the Greenwood Village, Colo., police had blasted rockets through the house.
Projectiles were still lodged in the walls. Glass and wooden paneling crumbled on the ground below the gaping holes, and inside, the family’s belongings and furniture appeared thrashed in a heap of insulation and drywall. Leo Lech, who rented the home to his son, thought it looked like al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s compound after the raid that killed him.
But now it was just a neighborhood crime scene, the suburban home where an armed Walmart shoplifting suspect randomly barricaded himself after fleeing the store on a June afternoon in 2015. For 19 hours, the suspect holed up in a bathroom as a SWAT team fired gas munition and 40-millimeter rounds through the windows, drove an armored vehicle through the doors, tossed flash-bang grenades inside and used explosives to blow out the walls.
The suspect was captured alive, but the home was utterly destroyed, eventually condemned to be demolished by the City of Greenwood Village.
The suspect, Robert Jonathan Seacat, had stolen a shirt and a couple of belts from a Walmart in neighboring Aurora, Colo., and then fled in a Lexus, according to a police affidavit.
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I keep forgetting, why are we supposed to trust the police??
That's some amazing s**t...They'll need to raise taxes now to provide them with more resources.
“All for a shirt and a couple of belts. Wonder what they would have done if he’d killed someone? “
I am sure that was on the cops mind after he started shooting at them.
They got to play with their toys.
Even though the suspect was armed, the police response was way over the top.
The people living in that city had better hope the police have been re-educated in the years since this happened.
So the incompetents don't destroy it!
No need to destroy the house and then shaft the homeowner.
(= end of sarcasm)
They would have blown up Fido too if present.
“No need to destroy the house and then shaft the homeowner.”
The didn’t shaft the homeowner.
“His out-of-pocket expenses to rebuild the house cost him nearly $400,000, he said. “
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The city offered $5,000 for living expenses; I can understand his frustration there.
The city offered to cover the deductible.
The insurance should have covered the rest.
Did he not have insurance?
Just confused, here.
Annoyed, as well, what with the court’s decision being so asinine.
Just give them the excuse to shoot up the place, and they’ll be more than happy to oblige. Fortunately, there is no mention of the victims having a pet dog.
He had a gun and was shooting out the window. Is that shoplifting? Don't trust the Compost in their treatment of the police any more that you would trust their reporting on Trump.
You DID read what happened, right?
He has no house and it was ruled he wasn’t getting any compensation for damages because they occurred during the course of police actions.
Yes, he got shafted.
Nuked the whole town.
He shoplifted.
Then ran into this uninvolved house.
You still don’t need to destroy the house to get the badguy.
You know where he is, you localize any damage to there.
No need to “Burn the house to kill the spider”.
“Other SWAT teams seem to be able to accomplish this without demolishing the house. “
Precisely.
“You DID read what happened, right?
He has no house and it was ruled he wasn’t getting any compensation for damages because they occurred during the course of police actions.
Yes, he got shafted.”
Dude, the house was insured. The offered to pay the deductible and rental assistance. Now, how was he shafted?
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