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
    68·
    10 months 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
        11·
        10 months 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.