Posted on 10/28/2021 11:53:24 AM PDT by Enlightened1
An attempt by Austin, Texas, officials to serve a search warrant and provide lawn care resulted in shots fired, an hourslong standoff, a house fire and a death, police said Wednesday.
Police officers and code enforcement officers arrived at a home at 9:16 a.m. to serve a nuisance search warrant, but could not make contact with the resident, Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon said at an evening news conference.
The warrant was left at the door and contractors for the city's code enforcement began working on the lawn. About an hour later, the resident started shooting from inside the house, Chacon said.
"And they immediately backed off. They got all of the staff that was working on the house to safety and and a SWAT call was initiated for a barricaded subject," he said.
SWAT, mental health officers and a crisis negotiator arrived on scene, but could not get the man out of the home, leading to the lockdown of a nearby elementary school and the closure of several streets.
"SWAT spent the next several hours trying to negotiate with the individual to just simply come out of the house," Chacon said.
At about 3 p.m., the resident started shooting at officers again. "And because of that immediate threat ... they made entry using a robot," Chacon said.
The robot helped officers determine that a fire had been started in the home, and was quickly spreading, he said. Officers still couldn't get the man to come out of the house as it became fully engulfed in flames.
But then the man exited through the garage with weapons in his hand. "At that time, a SWAT officer shot and struck the resident who went down with a gunshot wound," Chacon said.
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Most SWAT team members enjoy killing humans.
Let me guess. The mayor's wife, or some other relative, is head of the homeowner's association and is triggered by unmowed grass.
Grain of salt since it is the word of the nuts who police Austin.
And apparently people are ok with that.
Also with the idea that if someone joins a home owners association they can never leave. Sort of like communism, you have to shoot your way out.
And with the idea that if you choose not to join a home owners association they can blatantly forge papers saying you joined.
And if you do not do as ordered they can take your home and sell it.
These things always make me sad and angry at the system. All they have is a hammer and isolated people get hammered, over and over again.
Seriously, how was this guy getting food? Either someone was delivering it or he was going out to buy it himself. That’s always the best way to get inside someone’s social circle, even if the circle has zero others in it.
Social workers are useless because the majority are lazy or stupid. Even if they are competent, the rules are so risk adverse that they can’t actually do anything useful.
So government is just going to keep killing the mentally ill every time there is friction with officialdom and their “rules”.
SWAT. If you build it they will use it.
How much of the 6 trillion spending framework address the spiraling issue of the mentally ill receiving no substantive helpful assistance?
While that is true in many cases, it appears the man here got himself killed by escalating to shooting at people and starting a fire.
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.mocities.com/resource/resmgr/july_review/Nuisance_Warrants.pdf
more information on Nuisance Warrants for anyone interested..
I knew a family that lived in the city of Ithaca who didn’t cut their grass because the grass would feel pain (it’s a living thing) and they might also kill bugs within the grass as collateral damage.
No joke.
Comply and obey with the homeowners associations rules to keep the neighborhood nice beautiful, or we'll kill you and leave a smoking crater where your home used to be.
Neighborhood looks sharp now!
You MUST state that the victim was White for public safety.
The process is the punishment.
What do you base that absurd claim on?
Sombitch should have mowed his lawn.
Of note: He was shot dead because he was shooting at the cops. Almost everyone knows that’s suicide.
Except this guy.
Yep, that came to my mind as well.
Faulty public policy.
What did they used to say? “A man’s home is his castle.”
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