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.

  • Famko@lemmy.world
    95·
    10 months ago

    But people these days can’t even afford the cheapest apartments, so what’s the point of having “better” apartments for the minority?

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      96·
      10 months ago

      So instead let the people move into those apartments for free, damage them and then let them shoot at police trying to evict them?

      Would you be willing to part with your life savings to give them to me just because I left a comment to your thread? If not, why are you expecting other people to part with the houses they built with their life savings for some random bloke?

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      By definition, people can afford the cheapest apartments, because that’s how those apartments get rented at that price point.

      • mathemachristian@lemm.ee
        2·
        10 months ago

        Do you not see the problem here?? Your definition only includes those able to rent. As soon as the price of the cheapest apartment rises anyone under that cutoff becomes invisible to you.