A federal appeals court ruled that a home owner isn't owed any compensation from police after a SWAT team blasted away at his Colorado house in a stand-off with an armed shoplifter and left the property a total loss. Leo Lech sued after police in Greenwood fired gas munition and 40-millimeter rounds through the windows of his home in the June 2015 standoff with the shoplifter who had barricaded himself inside. Seacat randomly ran into Lech's home in Greenwood, setting off a 19-hour standoff with police, that included the massive assault on the property. Lech was livid by the destruction of the home, which he had purchased for his son, John, two years earlier. 'If that didn't work, you have 50 SWAT officers with body armor break down the door'.

Source: Daily Mail October 30, 2019 15:15 UTC