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.

  • InvaderDJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    10 months ago

    Agreed, but this is probably not the case to make the argument with. If someone has the guns and ammo to fight off police enforcing property owner rights (something they would be way more gung ho about than stopping a school shooter it seems) for six hours, they have the money to pay for rent.

      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
        41·
        10 months ago

        How are you going to finance housing then? Honest question. Not everyone can buy housing outright. Lots of people are very poor at managing their finances. See, my mom for exhibit A.

        • ikiru@lemmy.ml
          42·
          10 months ago

          Socialized housing that is paid through government funds and taxes.

          • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
            1·
            10 months ago

            We do need socialized housing, but the government doesn’t have the ability to construct and manage most of the housing. Too expensive. The bureaucracy would kill it, just look at what happened to the Soviet Union.

            My city can’t even build an apartment building without spending 8 years in design review. And they’re having a private nonprofit so ask the lifting.

            US real estate is worth around $43 trillion.