Five Conn. Towns to Pay for Deadly Police Raid
$3.5 million to family of man killed by officers while watching television at home
Five years ago, a heavily armed special weapons and tactics team charged into a small ranch home in Easton -- guns drawn and flash grenades exploding -- and killed a Norwalk man who was quietly watching porn on TV in the den.
Now five towns will pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the victim's family.
In a joint statement, officials from Easton, Monroe, Trumbull, Wilton and Darien all maintained their police were not responsible for the death of Gonzalo Guizan that day, said the lawyer for the home's owner.
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Not it!!!
Something about horses, barn doors...
Get this man a MENSA application.