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State Chapters => State Politics/Government => Topic started by: mountaineer on January 01, 2024, 07:37:41 pm
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This Innocent Woman Is on the Hook for Thousands After a SWAT Team Destroyed Her Home
An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house.
Billy Binion | 12.20.2023 10:51 AM In June of 2022, law enforcement arrived at a modest home on East Calvert Street in South Bend, Indiana. They threw dozens of tear gas grenades into the house, launched flash-bangs through the front door, smashed windows, destroyed the security cameras, punched holes in the walls, ripped a panel and fan from the bathroom wall and ceiling, ransacked and tossed furniture, snatched curtains down, and broke a mirror and various storage containers. The tear gas bombs left openings in the walls, floors, and ceiling. Shattered glass lay strewn across the interior, and a litany of personal belongings—from clothing, beds, and electronics to childhood drawings and family photos—were ruined.
Police had their sights set on a man named John Parnell Thomas, then a fugitive, who is now behind bars. But law enforcement didn't apprehend Thomas at the residence on East Calvert, as he did not own the home, did not have any relationship with its owners, and had never been there.
The actual owner, Amy Hadley, was not a suspect in law enforcement's investigation. She was, in some sense, punished anyway, as the government left her to pick up the tab after officers dismantled and wrecked much of her home. ...
A year and a half post-raid, those agencies have paid her nothing. Her home insurance helped her in part but declined to pay the full amount, which totaled at least $16,000 in damages, per her suit, leaving her thousands of dollars in the hole.
It's not the first time the government has destroyed an innocent person's property and left them to pick up the pieces, both literally and figuratively. Hadley's experience once again requires that we answer the following: When law enforcement wrecks someone's house or business in pursuit of public safety, who should bear the cost? ...
Full story at Reason (https://reason.com/2023/12/20/this-innocent-woman-is-on-the-hook-for-thousands-after-a-swat-team-destroyed-her-home/)
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Our government has turned into something unrecognizable.
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Our government has turned into something unrecognizable.
Our country is turning into something unrecognizable. Just wait till millions of ILLEGALS occupy all states.
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Our government has turned into something unrecognizable.
In Indiana, no less, **nononono*