NoHo Print Shop Destroyed by Swat Officers Won’t Be Reimbursed for Damages

The judge found that police shouldn’t be required to pay under the Fifth Amendment because they didn’t take anything.

NoHo Printing and Graphics on Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, Calif., in September 2022. Google Maps/Screenshot via California Insider

The City of Los Angeles won’t need to reimburse the owner of a North Hollywood print shop that was damaged during a raid by Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officers, a federal judge ruled March 25.

In 2022, during the pursuit of a fugitive, officers fired tear gas, busted holes in the walls and ceiling, and destroyed printing machines and other equipment totaling around $60,000, of which the owner was never reimbursed.