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Started as theft, moved up to attempted murder of a police officer. Use of force is justified. Not repairing the house is absolutely condemnation worthy. My local police department paid for a door broken in during a breach so it's not the same everywhere.

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There are gradients of force, they could have done this without destroying this person's house, it's not like he had hostages that were in immediate danger, he was hiding in a house..

Just because some force is reasonable doesn't mean all force is immediately reasonable and it's not stuck at higher levels as the situation changes. While he's being chased and posing a higher threat more force is reasonable but once he was barricaded in the house the danger posed to the public is reduced.

Destroying a home because you want to demonstrate how hardcore you are is none.

Surround it and wait for them to give themselves up. That's what other countries do.

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