Guess owner is being forced to sue. Allegedly city offered a whopping 5k..... http://www.9news.com/mb/news/local/m...destroyed-home
Bad timing with all the other unjustified ignorant cop hate, but this one really pissed me off at the time.
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Guess owner is being forced to sue. Allegedly city offered a whopping 5k..... http://www.9news.com/mb/news/local/m...destroyed-home
Bad timing with all the other unjustified ignorant cop hate, but this one really pissed me off at the time.
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http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/03...-village-swat/
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Dunno if the guy is totally right in his analysis, but I have to agree in general.Quote:
Leegal • 2 days ago ....said Tonya Haas Davidson, Greenwood Village city attorney. “That was to cover his out-of-pocket deductible and provide for some temporary housing,” she said. “That’s what happens to everybody that has insurance. If you have a fire in your home, the fire department that cuts a hole in your roof doesn’t pay for the damages it causes.”
Uh yeah, Tonya, and when the insurance company finds out that the fire was started by arson, or a faulty water heater subject to a recall, or by electrical work performed by an intoxicated or unlicensed electrician, etc... the insurance company then goes after the proximate (legal) cause of the fire, and settle it through SUBROGATION!!! Since it was your COPS, blasting, bombing, and ramming away, the needle points right back at you.
GV is going to argue that the city, as well as any city/county employees, were simply acting in 'good faith' and that the circumstances became so exigent that the only way to settle this was by flexing their militarized-police muscle. They are wrong. Was ramming, smashing, blasting, gassing, and burning the house an option? Well yes it was, and they proved that much, but it certainly wasn't the ONLY option.
GV is really stretching any U.S v Leon - good faith - arguments to a legal breaking point with this one. The Government, from the federal tiers and all the way down to the municipal level, changed the way that they operate, in terms of having carte blanche to run ramshod though civilians, and all of those pesky, bothersome, and watered down civil rights which ordinary citizens used to possess once Leon was decided. Nowadays, all that it takes is a government employee saying "well I THOUGHT that I was doing the right thing, by gosh by golly!!" and the Judges decide the case(s) - against the citizens - before a court appearance is ever made.
Enough is enough - militarized police, jumping to level 99, before even thinking what may take place between levels 1-98, can not prevail here! For the sake of justice, please let the little guy win; the Constitution was meant to protect the citizen from the government, not the other way around.
Dang, that's crazy.
In my experience with the government, compensation is a smallpox laden blanket.
I'm intimately familiar with this situation and it was amateur hour with GVPD. There were other options to see if the bad guy was still in the house besides bringing in the heavy gear to knock holes in the house ultimately destroying it. It turned into a training mission. The suit was actually filed back in January.
There are a few good cops on GVPD but that Dept has been plagued with bad administration/bad officers going back to the "suicide" of Lawrence Ocrant in 1984. Hasn't gotten much/any better.
The GVPD probably just needs the Obama Justice Department and the UN to take it over. That should fix things.
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I'm gonna take issue with your statement, given I worked there for 10 years.Quote:
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So what's your take on the situation. Did this seem like a reasonable outcome to you?Quote:
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