{"id":18169,"date":"2025-06-14T14:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T14:14:12","slug":"police-blew-up-this-innocent-womans-house-and-left-her-with-the-bill-a-judge-says-shes-owed-60000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18169","title":{"rendered":"Police Blew Up This Innocent Woman&#8217;s House and Left Her With the Bill. A Judge Says She&#8217;s Owed $60,000."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Years after a SWAT team in Texas destroyed an innocent woman&#8217;s home while trying to apprehend a fugitive, the local government will have to pay her $60,000 in damages plus interest, a federal judge ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That decision may sound like common sense. But the ending was far from guaranteed in a legal odyssey that saw Vicki Baker of McKinney, Texas, left with a dilapidated house\u2014and the bill for the damages\u2014even though she was never suspected of wrongdoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/06\/06\/police-blew-up-this-innocent-womans-house-and-left-her-with-the-bill-a-judge-says-shes-owed-60000\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/06\/06\/police-blew-up-this-innocent-womans-house-and-left-her-with-the-bill-a-judge-says-shes-owed-60000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Years after a SWAT team in Texas destroyed an innocent woman&#8217;s home while trying to apprehend a fugitive, the local government will have to pay her $60,000 in damages plus interest, a federal judge ruled Thursday.<br \/>\nThat decision may sound like common sense. But the ending was far from guaranteed in a legal odyssey that saw Vicki Baker of McKinney, Texas, left with a dilapidated house\u2014and the bill for the damages\u2014even though she was never suspected of wrongdoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/06\/06\/police-blew-up-this-innocent-womans-house-and-left-her-with-the-bill-a-judge-says-shes-owed-60000\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,285,288,952],"class_list":["post-18169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-police","tag-police-accountability","tag-swat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18171,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/18171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}