Cops chase innocent shoplifting suspect into stranger’s house, then storm it with 50-person SWAT team and blow up every room except one

doctorpsycho1960:

livewithsomeregrets:

mostlysignssomeportents:

Leo Lech is suing the police in Greenwood, Colorado for storming his house with a 50-person SWAT team because they mistakenly believed that a man who ran into his house (whom Lech didn’t know) had shoplifted a shirt and two belts from Walmart; the police engaged in a 19-hour standoff that led to the near-total destruction of Lech’s house due to the use of “calculated destruction,” a tactic through which explosives are detonated through the house, room by room, to isolate the suspect.

Lech was given $5000 in compensation.

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/22/calculated-destruction.html

Here’s a good article the washington post did on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/11/20/a-city-attorney-in-colorado-tried-to-blame-me-for-influencing-timothy-mcveigh-i-was-a-sophomore-in-college-at-the-time/?utm_term=.18377985f1f4

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