36: Your House Is A SWAT Team's Rage Room

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Out of nowhere, your front door explodes. You see a man with a gun run through your door and up the stairs, firing shots at the police chasing after him. Luckily, you run for cover before a SWAT team begins their "protocol" to flush him out - explosives, toxic gasses, grenades, BearCat armored tanks, robots, and chemical weapons hit every inch of your home. Eventually, the situation is secure. The neighborhood is safe. Police followed "all necessary protocol." Your house? Destroyed. Your personal belongings? Melted by explosives. Your cat? Blind and deaf from the events. And you? Hopefully financially stable. Because neither insurance nor the courts will help you. In fact, a judge says that the City police department doesn’t owe you a dime. This is Baker v. City of McKinney (2020) (cert. denied 2024). Follow @RebuttalPod on Instagram and Twitter! Follow @Rebmasel on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter! * * * 0:00 - Intro 3:01 - Baker v. City of McKinney (2020) 7:20 - A 15 year-old hostage in tow 10:06 - Tomfoolery begins / SWAT blow a house to smithereens 21:06 - Not the first nor the last! 30:12 - Lech v. City of Greenwood Village (2015) / Two Belts, One Shirt 38:56 - Cops lie in police reports (pt. 47982347372492) 41:10 - SWAT team turns Lech's house into chemical weapons target practice and I'm not even joking 42:53 - The goddamn robots 53:49 - Victims galore 56:28 - Varlitskiy v. County of Riverside, CA, et al. (2024) 1:02:06 - Reb's Rebuttal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices