Fifth Circuit Leans Toward Homeowner in SWAT Case: Texas Brief

SWAT Team Damages: Should the City Pay?

In trying to capture a fugitive hiding in Vicki Baker’s McKinney home in 2020, city police knocked down her backyard fence with a BearCat, fired about 30 tear gas canisters through the windows, and knocked down the front and garage doors.

Now, a Fifth Circuit panel seems inclined to side with Baker to uphold $60,000 in damages the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas awarded her last year after the city declined to pay, Jacqueline Thomsen reports.

During arguments Monday, Judge James Ho read part of a Texas ...