Overkill: California couple sues police for wrecking their house on homeless hunt

‘Law enforcement officers in Fresno County, California, unleashed an “excessive, unreasonable, violent” assault on a family’s home in order to flush out an unarmed homeless man who had broken in, the owners said in a lawsuit.
David and Gretchen Jessen, who are farmers in rural Fresno County, say in the suit that the authorities justified the “military-like training action” that destroyed their house on June 11, 2016, as an operation to apprehend a homeless intruder who, in the end, only took some food from the house refrigerator, according to Courthouse News.
The Jessens’ lawsuit says that the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department and the Clovis Police Department essentially used their secluded rural home to stage a SWAT team training exercise that involved more than 50 law enforcement vehicles, two helicopters, and a teargas-firing SWAT team, among others.’
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