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 familys 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 Ladens 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Just like on the Reyna threads back in the day, right?
Tell me, how did that work out for you?
He broke into the house, pulled a gun on a child in the house, then started shooting at the police when they arrived. You can criticize the damage to the house, but calling him a shoplifter is pure BS.
“Just like on the Reyna threads back in the day, right?
Tell me, how did that work out for you?”
Same. You gangster lovers just hate the facts.
thanks CAWW- I figured the WP was downplaying what actually happened- per usual- there was nothing about any of that in the msm article that i could see-
“Funny, you might be lying.”
Please cite the lie or stfu!
I wonder what they would have done if he didn't turn in his banned firearm?
Yet FReepers say that most will be on our side if the country goes full civil war...
“I am sure that was on the cops mind after he started shooting at them.”
Ah. Twenty-two comments before the boot-lickers showed up. I expected better...
You are aware that other Swat teams were able to perform captures on similarly dangerous suspects without destroying houses, right?
Only place that thought this was normal was Philadelphia, the city that bombed itself.
The lie: He wasn’t shafted.
FWIW, he is in jail serving a 100 year sentence for attempted manslaughter, amongst other charges. But sure, if you want to buy into the left wing comPost narrative that he was a poor shoplifter, go for it.
another version:
Okay - so who’s house was it? Did the guy just randomly chose a house to run into then the cops blow it up? If they wanted the guy blowing up the house would have killed him just as much as bullets. Why should the homeowner suffer the loss?
The perps father owns the building his son rented an apartment in........if just another tenant off the street the father would be suing the tenant for creating this event.
And his ins will go up, if he can get any.
If there was a 400k insurance payout the real suit is yet to come. The insurance company who surely has a legal dept will be bringing a suit that the city will lose or may even settle.
Just posted re: what I read here about the shirt and belts; so does that make FR a left wing compost narrative?
“The lie: He wasnt shafted.”
Considering he was fully compensated, how was he shafted?
You are a fool if you do.
Okay - so whos house was it?
The son rented from his father who owns the building.
The court acknowledged that this may seem unfair, but when police have to protect the public, they cant be burdened with the condition that they compensate whoever is damaged by their actions along the way.
The police don't have to protect the public.
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