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.
You sound no different than boomers telling younger people to stop buying lattes and avocado toast to fix our financial burdens.
(Under handed comments add nothing to the conversation, you just sound like an asshole)
Edit: I thought this guy couldn't afford rent and was another victim of the housing crisis, rather then just refusing to pay it (something about being a sovereign citizen). My bad.
Dude, if you're budget is so tight that you can barely afford to pay your rent then choose your priorities. For that guy it was guns > rent? He deserves zero pity if he gets thrown out on the street. Heck, gun nuts are all about individual responsibilities? Well that's what individual responsibilities looks like and it looks like he just couldn't accept it so he felt the need to shoot at the people coming to evict him.
I meant more generally, arguing rent over ammo or other relatively inexpensive (vs rent) wants. Sorry I didn't realize this particular individual seems to have been avoiding rent rather then unable to afford it.
Even if it was an issue with being able to afford it instead of avoiding it, hoarding non essentials while you're struggling to pay for essential needs is fucking ridiculous, sell that shit, keep a roof above your head.
Well part of my point is that ammo is very cheap. 1000 rounds of 22lr is like 100USD. Even 1000 rounds of 5.56/.223 (AR-15 ammo) starts around $500. Hence why I compared it to lattes and avocado toast. Cutting all that out doesn't fix the cost of housing or slumping salaries.
Im speaking generally ofc, idk how much ammo this guy had. But more ammo than you could fire in 6 hours is cheaper than youd expect.
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.
People should have a home if the action here were to provide another housing option, then this wouldn't have happened. Also seems the person likely had a traumatic reason for being evicted and needed help.
I agree. But I probably wouldn't phrase that as "they could stop evicting people".
Even if well implemented social housing existed, one should still be able to evict people from expensive property they aren't willing or able to pay for.
Here is a pic of the residence. Idk if rented or not but it is not small
And here is the real reason for the conflict
Sources said Hardison believed he was a sovereign citizen, meaning he thought he was exempt from the law.
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 is the link to yet another article found within the linked article mentioned in OPs linked article. They post his address I snapped the Street View pic from that.
Indeed. If you want anything better than the cheapest apartments to exist, you have to be able to evict people who can't afford more than the cheapest apartments.
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?
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.
Fuck the children of poor people, idiots should've been working to supplement the families income if they didn't want to be crammed into a room with their siblings. Lazy ass kids...
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.
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.
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.