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: 2) by Tork on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:21AM
I really love how liberal scum are so vocally against police militarization and oppression.
Result: Less death.
And yet they will gladly vote to regulate what sizes of soda others must drink, what others can eat, what others can smoke...
Result: Less death.
("Result: Less death.") == ("Result: Less death.") // True
Sorry, I'm having trouble following your train of thought on this one.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:34AM
Less Death = more births.
so more births = less costs through lower wages for everybody! Big business wins. The lower-class grows while the middle class loses.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:39PM
Not really. If you stop someone from dying at 40, and instead they die at 80, what are the odds they're going to have kids in those extra years? Pretty slim. The kinds of deaths caused by drinking too much soda specifically are unlikely to be the kinds of deaths that prevent people from reproducing.