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.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Guarantee you that him just liquidating the guns and ammo would’ve been enough money for a new apartment or to pay his rent.

    Dude didn’t want to pay and wanted to fight the gov because he was a SovCit.

    Sources said Hardison believed he was a sovereign citizen, meaning he thought he was exempt from the law.

    A Channel 11 News photographer discovered a video of Hardison during a prior interaction with police in 2019. In the video, you can see a Moorish flag, which is flown by Moorish sovereign citizens.

    Hardison had a criminal history dating back to at least 2000.

    Source: further nested news links if you chase the articles back.