In this case it's perfectly justified,
Only if you are a retard with explosives and heavy trucks. "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." SWAT is the football team of the police force. They make other cops look like Rhodes scholars.
The reality is that a brighter group of people could have the finesse to do the same thing without wanton destruction. Even beyond the property damage, I'm sure that poor hostage will have permanent hearing loss from the beach. There are numerous of stories of babies and small children being burned, blinded, deafened by SWAT raids. Those SWAT boys just don'e care how much damage to people and property that they do.
But, at the end of the day: it's easier to give a bunch of retards big toys and explosives than it is to train hostage negotiators and higher IQ people to have some finesse in situations like this.
They make other cops look like Rhodes scholars.
They put the "Special" in "Special Weapons And Tactics."
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe if they'd gone with the gently gently approach the hostage would be dead. Honestly these kinds of scenarios involve so many ifs and buts that it's not predictable.
Either material goods should almost always take second place to preserving life when it comes to violent criminals.
Well if you fuck up someone's property like that then the homeowner's life is already in danger due to poverty and a very pissed off man with nothing to lose has been created, and then the same thing happens again.
I can care less about the hostages, they'd be pretty much fucked from the start, but at least try to minimize property damage.
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