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.

  • steveman_ha@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I feel like “shots fired” is one of the times where it probably would be called for… But totally agreed. This is how things are in quite a few non-US countries, and literally every one of them (I think?) have a lot less of their residents being murdered by police.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      But look at how absurd this became just because the police were justified in using lethal force. Officers drove to the scene to fire their weapons so they could get some paid time off. It was one guy with no hostages who hadn’t committed a crime before firing at the police. It took 75 officers 6 hours to kill him.