Property damage immunity

US courts have given cops immunity for any destruction of property that they cause in the course of their activity.

I agree that the government should compensate those whose property government agents destroy except pursuant to a court order to do so.

As I see it, this conclusion does not require calling the damage "taking of property." It's enough that it is damage. If you or I destroyed a house, even if it were in the course of some activity that was not wrong in itself, you or I would be liable. So should the city.