Cops were pursuing fugitive, but blew up printing company without catching suspect
The Institute for Justice has begun working with the owner of a small business in North Hollywood that was blown up – destroyed – by SWAT officers in pursuit of a fugitive.
And after the print shop was destroyed, the suspect got away anyway.
The IJ reports the fight has erupted because the city of Los Angeles, whose officers destroyed Carlos Pena’s NoHo Printing and Graphics store, has refused to provide any compensation.
The catastrophe developed last year when an armed fugitive fleeing U.S. marshals threw Pena out of his store and then ran in to hide out.
“The marshals then initiated a standoff before a SWAT team from the Los Angeles Police Department arrived and fired more than 30 rounds of teargas into the business. Carlos—who waited in a nearby restaurant for 13 hours as his 31-year-old business was being destroyed—estimates that the raid caused more than $60,000 in damage,” the IJ said.
The police have done this to businesses in Salisbury that weren’t doing anything wrong just decided to harass them
Name the business and the damaged caused. Would be interesting to know the details
They would discreetly get a payback if it was my business.
This is one reason Little Lewis is getting out of this State.
Destruction , confiscation without returning property falls under the 5th Amendment.
Bye Bye Little Lewis , and take Tiny Todd with you to Florida
Hey GOOD OLE BOY, Mike is going nowhere.