DirecTV Installer's Comment Sets Off Drama

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DirecTV installer's comment sets off drama

SAVAGE, Minn. (UPI) -- A Minnesota woman is suing police who forced her to the ground and handcuffed her after a DirecTV dispatcher told police an installer was being held hostage.

"These are regular people. She's a schoolteacher. ... You shouldn't have SWAT teams coming after someone if they know there's not a crisis," Marc Kurzman, a lawyer for Julie and Steven Pyle of Savage, Minn., told the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press.

The Pyles are seeking more than $75,000 in damages in a federal civil rights lawsuit against DirecTV, Savage police and Scott County enforcement dispatchers.

The Pioneer Press reported that a DirectTV installer working at the Pyles' home told a dispatcher he was "being held hostage" and the dispatcher called police. Two installers then spoke to police and said there's been a misunderstanding and that they'd left the house.

Police went to their home, anyway, called Julie Pyle out and handcuffed her at gunpoint before searching the home, the lawsuit alleges.

Julie Pyle felt bad the job was taking the installers so long, so she baked them cookies, the lawsuit said.

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