homeowner's house almost demolished after SWAT team extracts Terran Green
Michael Hill, the owner of the property damaged by police, said law enforcement officials “certainly didn’t ask for permission” before destroying sections of the house. Hill said FBI officials did contact him Thursday evening, but only to ask for floor plans to the residence.
“It’s obviously shocking,” said Hill, who had been renting the property to a tenant. “I don’t know a lot about the circumstances. I can imagine they felt like they needed to act quickly. It seems a little extreme to me, but I don’t know whether they could have waited longer.”
In a follow-up statement Thursday, Harris County sheriff’s spokesperson Jason Spencer said the agency’s “top priority in these situations is to preserve human life, even if that means damaging some property.”
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Hill added that he started the insurance claim process Friday morning, though he didn’t know who will ultimately bear responsibility for the damage.
Coons, the Sam Houston State University clinical assistant professor, said Harris County likely wouldn’t pay for the property damage due to the doctrine of sovereign immunity, which protects the government from lawsuits.
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So who destroyed the house? Was it the Feds or the county sheriff's officers?
