SWAT team destroys man's home to capture shoplifter
'In any civilized
nation ... this is the act of paramilitary thugs'
Leo Lech used to be a Denver-area homeowner and landlord, but that
was before the local SWAT team, trying to extract a shoplifter who
had forced his way inside, turning his investment into a condemned property.
“There was one gunman with a handgun and they chose to turn
this house into something that resembles Osama Bin Laden’s compound,” Lech told
Denver’s KMGH News.
Lech’s problems began about 2 p.m. Wednesday, miles away in
Aurora, when Robert Jonathan Seacat, 33, was spotted attempting to shoplift. Seacat
fled, abandoned his car at the local light rail and took off on foot. As luck
would have it, Seacat randomly picked Lech’s Greenwood Village property to
force his way into to hide.
The home, rented to Lech’s son and his fiance, was occupied
at the time only by the woman’s nine-year-old son.
Seacat, armed with a handgun, opened fire on the police when
they arrived at the house, setting in motion a 20-hour standoff. Fortunately,
police dispatchers and the child’s mother were able to talk the child out of
the house and, about 9 a.m. Thursday, Seacat was taken into custody.
According to police, the SWAT team employed chemical agents,
flash-bang grenades and a “breaching ram” to punch large holes in nearly every
room on the second floor.
A neighbor, whose home was used as SWAT headquarters during
the siege, said police also used explosives to breach the wall of the house,
the blast breaking a windshield in his vehicle.
“They drove their tanks right though all our fences here,”
said the neighbor.
“There are holes just like this one all through the back of
the house too,” Lech said. “They methodically fired explosives into every room
in this house in order to extract one person. Granted, he had a handgun, but
against 100 officers? You know, the proper thing to do would be to evacuate
these homes around here, ensure the safety of the homeowners around here, fire
some tear gas through the windows. If that didn’t work, you have 50 SWAT
officers with body armor break down the door.”
Lech estimates his plan of action might have resulted in
$10,000 damage to the house. Instead, police inflicted $250,000 worth of damage
and the home may have to be demolished.
“This is an abomination,” he said. “This is an atrocity. To
use this kind of force against one gunman,” Lech said.
KMGH sought comment from the Greenwood Village police
chief and reported he said, “We did what we had to do to protect human life.”
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FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams
FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams are specialized tactical teams (SWAT) of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI). SWAT agents are specially trained to
intervene in high-risk events like hostage and barricade situations.
William D.
Ruckelshaus was a director for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a deputy attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, is a life
trustee at the Urban Institute (think
tank), a member of the Bretton Woods
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