According to reporting in AlterNet, the Denver Channel, Westword, and others:
A standoff between SWAT team members and an armed shoplifting suspect who barricaded himself in a Greenwood Village home ended, but now the home owner thinks police destroyed his house. Greenwood Village Police said the 19-hour standoff ended with no injured officers or citizens, but the home looks like a bomb went off.
There is a large hole in the front of the house, broken windows and glass are littered everywhere and shrapnel is stuck in the walls. Leo Lech said, "It looks like Osama Bin Laden's compound." Lech is no terrorist but an unlucky homeowner whose property was caught in the cross fire when the suspect broke into the home. A 9-year-old child who was in the home at the time was able to escape.
Greenwood Village Police say that the suspect had four active warrants out for narcotics and had a large amount of narcotics with him. The suspect tried to steal a car at the home and fired at police from the garage, Greenwood Village Police say. Negotiations with the suspect failed after police met two of the suspect's three demands, but the suspect severed communications with police. Police used explosives and a ramming device to gain entry into the home after negotiations failed.
"This is a complete atrocity," said Lech. "This is a paramilitary force used in a civilian environment ... for one gunman? To use this kind of power?" Lech said the Greenwood Village Police Department claimed it was not responsible and the city would not return his calls.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by AnonTechie on Wednesday June 10 2015, @07:45PM
I am surprised they didn't call in the Air Force and the Navy as well.
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @07:57PM
The homeowner is lucky. If the invader had been carrying a USB with lewd drawings of children, they'd probably call a goddamn firebomb strike.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @08:33PM
The perp was probably white then.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 10 2015, @10:16PM
Should have nuked it from orbit. It's the only way to be really sure.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @02:34AM
They couldn't even if they wanted to - military personnel actually have morals, they wouldn't be rushing to murder civilians on US soil like police always do.
(Score: 2) by mojo chan on Thursday June 11 2015, @10:08AM
It's an odd kind of morality that says it's wrong to murder civilians on US soil, but fine to murder them by remote drone overseas. The operator could even be sitting in the US somewhere, but it's fine because the victims aren't US citizens.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:09PM
Aren't the drones mostly operated by the CIA, who are decidedly non-military?