75 Pittsburgh officers on leave after hourslong shootout and standoff during eviction attempt
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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.

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    "We were aware of the actor’s disdain for government when we went to serve the eviction notice which is why we had extra deputies on the detail came prepared to escalate this neighborhood into a warzone for shits and giggles," Manko said in an emailed statement Friday.