[FoxNews] A SWAT team destroyed a cancer survivor’s home while chasing a fugitive. The city refused to pay for the damage. But a new legal strategy may help Vicki Baker and others.The SWAT team smashed Vicki Baker's brand-new fence, shot dozens of tear gas canisters through the walls, windows and roof, and used what Baker describes as a "bomb" to blow off the garage door. The goal, police later told her, was to create confusion and to shock their target.
But Baker was not the suspect in a crime and in fact was more than 1,000 miles away when police destroyed her home in McKinney, Texas. Now the 78-year-old cancer survivor is at the center of a landmark federal court ruling ordering the city of McKinney to pay nearly $60,000 in damages for destroying her house while pursuing a fugitive.