It may as well as have been the shoot-out at the OK Corral or something. Dozens of law-enforcement officers from a host of departments fired “thousands” of rounds of ammo at towards a barricaded suspect in Pittsburgh Wednesday. Now residents are talking to the media and they’re not happy about the aftermath. Not only was the suspect’s condo shot to pieces, but bullets riddled neighbors’ homes as well.
Fortunately nobody besides the squatter who started the battle were wounded or killed. It’s a miracle as law enforcement dumped when could add up to a hundred-plus pounds of lead towards this guy.
LOL. The cop at the news conference said “The tactical team exhausted every resource available to them…” Apparently that included ammunition as well.
What a circus.
At least 75 local law enforcement officers are being placed on leave in Pittsburgh after an hourslong standoff with a man who shot at sheriff’s deputies when they went to serve an eviction notice.
Deputies had gone to serve the notice in the city’s Garfield neighborhood when the man “turned violent and began shooting,” the Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The suspect, William Hardison Sr., was found dead inside the residence after gunfire was exchanged intermittently for roughly 6½ hours.
Mike Manko, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, confirmed in an email that 16 deputies were placed on administrative leave after the incident.
“The sheriff has reached out to each of the deputies personally and they will all go through a psych eval next week before being cleared to come back to work,” Manko said.
A dozen more Allegheny County police officers were also placed on administrative leave. All 12 of the officers fired their weapons, a department spokesperson confirmed, and the leave is standard protocol for the department.
Forty-seven Pittsburgh police officers who were involved in incident are also on leave, the police department confirmed, as part of its policy. The leave may vary from three to five days.
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