75 Pittsburgh officers on leave after hourslong shootout and standoff during eviction attempt
www.nbcnews.com
The suspect, William Hardison Sr., shot at deputies trying to serve an eviction notice, resulting in a standoff that lasted about 6½ hours.

    Details are still scant, but…

“I mean, he had a lot of ammunition in that house, and certainly … all of us were strapped, you know, with ammunition, and we were calling for additional ammunition,” Kraus said. “Like I said, we tried to give him every opportunity to come out.”

    …I’ll go way out on a limb and suggest that this could’ve been handled better.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    If instead of buying guns with your paycheck for years, you plopped it in an index fund, perhaps rent wouldn’t seem so out of reach.

    Edit: if you click the links within the articles and keep going, you find out he got evicted because he’s a SovCit who refused payments and wanted to fight the gov

    Sources said Hardison believed he was a sovereign citizen, meaning he thought he was exempt from the law.

    A Channel 11 News photographer discovered a video of Hardison during a prior interaction with police in 2019. In the video, you can see a Moorish flag, which is flown by Moorish sovereign citizens.

    Hardison had a criminal history dating back to at least 2000.

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I travel a lot for work and 3 news articles is not what I would call “heavy reading”

        Perhaps you’d be less busy if you weren’t working retail at a gun store.