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.

  • hglman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    245·
    10 months ago

    People should have a home if the action here were to provide another housing option, then this wouldn’t have happened. Also seems the person likely had a traumatic reason for being evicted and needed help.

    • crystal@feddit.de
      147·
      10 months ago

      I agree. But I probably wouldn’t phrase that as “they could stop evicting people”.

      Even if well implemented social housing existed, one should still be able to evict people from expensive property they aren’t willing or able to pay for.