Metropolitan Avenue between Thatcher Street and Hyde Park Avenue was shut for more than 90 minutes tonight as police surrounded a house where at least one armed robber appeared to run after a holdup around 8:40 p.m.
SWAT officers arrived and eventually fired a number of pepper-spray canisters into the house. Shortly before 10:30 p.m., officers entered the house and found no one inside.
Not long after, police re-opened the road and allowed residents - some of whom had been evacuated to a nearby CVS on Hyde Park Avenue - back to their homes.
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What a waste
By Good Guy
Sat, 01/25/2020 - 5:52am
Waste of swat team for a phantom. Firing pepper spray and destroying an innocent home. When police are board and over budgeted!
House
By BostonDog
Sat, 01/25/2020 - 9:50am
So who pays for damage to the house, particularly since the suspect wasn't even there?
The home owner pays. I had to
By D.O.
Sat, 01/25/2020 - 10:12am
The home owner pays. I had to repair a fence damaged by the police chasing someone. No financial assistance
Who pays for the stuff that
By anon
Sat, 01/25/2020 - 10:41am
Who pays for the stuff that the ARMED ROBBERS stole?
(Most of can read between the lines and see you’re just salivating at the chance to jump on the cops. Care to comment on the countless number of shootings they go to nightly?)
Align the benefits and the rewards
By Bob Leponge
Sat, 01/25/2020 - 3:20pm
How about the people who benefit from the criminal being caught (I.e., we the public) pay for the damage that our employees (I.e., the police) do to innocent people’s private property in the course of searching for and capturing the criminal? What is your objection to that?
How you getting that?
By Bob Leponge
Sun, 01/26/2020 - 12:10am
I can't imagine how you're getting that from what the poster wrote. The homeowner can't recover damages from the criminal because the criminal wasn't in his house. Whether or not he can recover damages from the city seems like a perfectly reasonable question.
Usually the homeowner gets
By You can call me Bill
Sat, 01/25/2020 - 11:17am
Usually the homeowner gets left with the bill.
I’ll give a different answer
By Waquiot
Sat, 01/25/2020 - 9:44pm
If the damage is pricy, perhaps the owners might want to talk to their insurance company, no?
Not necessarily
By Bob Leponge
Sun, 01/26/2020 - 12:11am
Why would I want to make a claim against my insurance if I could recover the damages from someone else?
However
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 01/27/2020 - 9:30am
You have insurance for a reason. Because the damage is caused by others, a known entity, the deductible is typically waived, yes? And you've paid a lot of money to your insurance, let them work to get the money out of those who cause the damage.
Wishful Thinking...
By Huguette Charles
Tue, 06/16/2020 - 9:05am
I've never heard of anything being waived by insurance. Secondly, although I have insurance I only want it to use it from natural occurrences or myself not some losers doing. Thirdly, why would I want my premiums to go up because of that. I hate when people say that's what insurance is for.
I wish the police would be responsible for that.
Well
By ElizaLeila
Thu, 06/18/2020 - 9:09am
You've never been in a car accident when the other driver was at fault.
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