"Must have been one damn nice door"
Let me be on that civil jury... I'd start at 20 million
For what?
A broken door, being handcuffed and about 15 minutes of mistaken identity?
Where they permanently injured, crippled, legs broken?
Jury verdicts and awards are all over the map in part because juries have lost perspective.
If this was done intentially, you are right, 20 million would be a starter. If this was an honest error, then 8 million is probably too high.
Trouble is, the millions won't be paid by the guilty parties, because they don't have that kind of money. It'll be paid ultimately by all the innocent citizens of the county.
Yep, start from there and work my way up. What kinda crap is "Oops, sorry, wrong house! My bad!"????