Dozens of officers are on leave after an hourslong shootout where thousands of shots were fired in Pittsburgh's Garfield neighborhood. KDKA-TV's Erica Mokay has the latest from city leaders.
@@christopherbrown9279 Funny, usually it's "white man with a gun" - at least on the news. But if you want to check FBI and CDC gun homicide statistics you'll find that it really is disproportionately black males with guns.
@@KB-kp2oz paper targets dont shoot back.....its totally different when your being shot at....can tell you have never experienced this....join up if you can do better...everyones hiring...but we know you dont have what it takes...you just run your mouth on the internet where your safe...not even using your real name
Trigger happy cops that don't know how to operate the weapons they carry!!! 2 people and 6 shots could have handled this situation with ease if there was only 1 person they were trying to corral up!! If you ever have the opportunity to watch cops on a range trying to qualify with the weapons the carry have an experienced shooter with you and later go watch a groupe of civilian target shooters at a service rifle or NRA High Power Rifle Competition and compare them to the cops!!! TWO DIFFRRENT WORLDS in ability!!! Civilians hand down the most accurate!!!
Only in NE USA and Cali do we have pointless factless news and vague terms. And violence in streets to match. Has to be the water! 😂 Love you Brits across the pond btw! Please don't think us Yanks as a whole are bad because a few on one coast and a few on other love crime and drugs and hate all cops because theyngot a speeding ticket once and then coulen't afford their beer and also just love anarchy. lol The rest of us in Middle (save St Louis and Chicago) hate crime and try to be normal. These big city, well frankly, extreme leftist anarachist cities are the issue. Normal left middle and right are more sane, I swear! 😂😊
In merkin, the story is not what they want to you to know… remember that kid that shot up the Christian school in Nashville? The reason was NEVER part of the story and may be why it was dropped so fast…
It was probably a "diverse" person involved in the incident. EDIT: Didn't watch the whole thing, I was right, he was a diverse person. same thing happens in the UK, the only difference is there are no guns in the UK. the question now is what he did to warrant the response, such things don't happen for no reason.
Another black man with a gun firing many hundreds of rounds into his neighborhood, thus endangering many people, yet you won't hear this story in the mainstream media, because it does not fit their racist narrative, yet they take place every week in Chicago and other Demoncrat-controlled cities.
"Authorities" were taking his home away. My understanding is he felt he had nothing else to lose. They could take his house over his dead body... and that's what happened. This man should be a hero. He died defending his home. Watch Patriot Nurse, she is spot on about this.
I lived in NJ in a small town if there was a car accident all the cops in town would go there for something to do. So some bank robbers staged an accident on the outskirts while the credit union was being robbed.😮
Thays wild man. I knew a guy over a decade ago did same thing, but also waited for a train to block the main street where police station was in south Chicago
Its sad that I can no longer tell if this is sarcasm or how people actually think now a days. I'm hoping sarcasm but after reading other comments on this video I'm honestly not even sure anymore.
Its pretty easy to know how. If they were to explain what happen, it would not help them with their narrative. Its all about defunding the police, taking guns away from law abiding citizens, and allowing criminals to do as they please because criminals lives and well-being matter more than law abiding citizens.
@@tavuong666 -- Do you think that thousands of shots -- some sent into the neighbors' houses -- were justified? Anyway, the point of the comment is that the news story did not explain the whole story. Who was this guy? Why were the police called to his house? Who fired the first shot? Were there negotiators present? Did they attempt to negotiate? Could they have waited the guy out?
All I could tell from this weak-sauce report is that a Citizen had potentially more than one firearm and a standard cache of ammo. Literally they didn't even spelled out (in this report) why the police were even there.
Great report, we have no idea why they were there, were they called, was he being investigated? Who fired first, how long did the cops negotiate? Seriously, media is a fkn joke in this country!
He was an illegal squatter, he was being evicted and decided to put up a fight instead of leaving peacefully. Funny how this news report wants to make it seem as though the cops did this for no reason, the guy had stockpiled weapons and ammo (apparently he could afford that, but not rent) in order to put up a fight. Typically cops are taken off the street during the investigation into a shooting, so that’s not even abnormal. They also neglected to mention how many rounds he fired vs how many the police did. Terrible reporting, but certain people are protected by the media in this day and age.
We obviously (to some anyway) aren't being told the full story of what went on here. Regardless, I can't imagine a scenario where 75 officers is warranted.
We had an issue in a small country community where down the road from me, a neighbor was holding a little girl hostage. It seemed like the entire force from the big city was out there everything from squad cars to armored vehicles and equipment that I have never seen before besides on tv. The entire 1/4 mile dirt road street was congested with officers, swat and who knows. They were also walking around and notifying neighbors to stay indoors and evacuating homes in the immediate area. Somehow, they managed to rescue the girl and detain the suspect as the suspect had not shot at anyone yet. They prepared for the worst and ended up with a great outcome.
No one deserves to die for squatting... even criminal enforcers for shady landlords do less lethal stuff like set an attack dog loose in the building to chase the squatter out... yet these coward cops acted like they were taking out "el chapo" or something. One old man vs 75 bitch ass heavily armed idiots.
3:50 since there's virtually no efficient mental health care in America at any insurance level. And any psychopath could and did become president. There is no such thing as the mental health care in America and nobody will ever know what's really going on because there is no mental healthcare in America
Accountable for what? Is anyone paying you to get shot at? Do you come back into work the next day after getting shot at? Do you work at all, or do you just expect everyone else to take on the stress of making society function day to day? You can criticize and bitch all you want, but until you're ready to take on what others must deal with, no one gives a rat's ass about you or your self-inflicted problems that make you angry at the world.
Hold that culture accountable, 80% of the problem in this country. Send them all to an island for a week and the cops in America are writing jaywalking tickets..
remember the cops have qualified immunity. so they're not responsible for anything. provided it's in the line of duty, of course. at most, they might get fired, sadly. but then they can easily get a security job anywhere.
Years ago, we had a man squatting in a vacation cottage. I worked as a deputy sheriff then. We surrounded the house, calling for him to come out. He refused. One deputy was sent back to the office to get our tear gas gun and tear gas cartridges. He returned with the tear gas gun and cartridges. We broke a window and shot several tear gas cartridges into the house. We broke in the door, sending a deputy inside. He met the squatter, who was covered, head-to-toe, in white-colored powder, while holding an axe, waving it at the deputy. The man was arrested. Turns out, those tear gas cartridges we used were actually practice cartridges filled with talcum powder.
@@bradk7653 What is it like to live in a cave while trying to protect the entrance with a long stick? There is one channel alone here on youtube which REGULARLY posts objective evidence regarding the intense accuracy of well trained police officers. Try learning about the real world which exists outside of your cave, or be prepared to be incorrect on most matters. Got to give you credit though. The intentionally ignorant will ALWAYS let themselves be known, and you made sure to provided clear objective evidence fully supporting that fact. You haven't a single clue that bullets continue to travel until the energy put into the round upon firing is absorbed (dissipated) in some way. Yet here you are, chiming in with subjective nonsense which is a direct result of a refusal to educate or experience objective reality, for fear of it uprooting your chosen beliefs which CLEARLY are not representative of objective truth.
That doesn't matter to those cowards all they care and cry about is officer's safety bs, that's just an excuse to act like they are military and unload. Bunch of cowards like all these fake ass coward cops in Uvalde
Oh thousands of shots that’s to much they where definitely trigger happy. Could you imagine if they hit inocente people they should also be held accountable for all that gun fire.
Who counted? Witnesses in the Amadou Dialo shooting said they heard hundreds of gunshots. In reality, cops fired forty one. They also reported automatic gunfire, machine guns. Not one cop had a machine gun, and not one automatic weapon. That's how good witnesses are.
@@genefogarty5395 41 each? That's 3075 That area is well known as a location to pick up a Glock switch, ya never know what never makes it to the evidence room, and besides, the ATF says that pictures on a piece of metal is a machine gun and two guys just got convicted, which is way wrong. Let's read the individual reports and compare them side by side so we can see what real consistency looks like.
I oove hiw the news says she doesn't want to go on camera however the tell exactly where she lives at. Anything happens to her it's partially the mediads fault
How long were they communicating and negotiating? The neighbors should have been removed before the gunfire started. If there was time. They don't use flash bangs or gas bombs anymore?
This wasn't Uvalde. Uvalde was a CQB situation. This was a lead swap out in the open. They knew where the guy was, in his house, the same layout as the house next door. Surprises were non existent, unless he started in with an RPG they knew they'd pin the tail on the donkey eventually. Just took a ton of rounds to do it.
@@genefogarty5395Another example of it not being Uvalde; The Uvalde PD retaliated against a mother after the event for speaking to the media about their failures and targeted her using their power and authority. Considering the police in Kansas recently raided a newspaper for investigating the chief of police and a friend of his/local business owner, police officers ignoring first amendment constitutional protections in favor of the power they wield isn’t surprising at all unfortunately
@@genefogarty5395😂against one 18 year old soy boy with zero military tactics. How many armed military tactics (CQB)trained officers ? And yet zero testosterone in that police force.
Thats unprofessional and a ultimate waste of resources. They should have to pay for their own bullets and cover the cost from damages from those wasted bullets.
Child mortality is one of the world's largest problems. Around 6 million children under 15 die per year. That's around 16,000 deaths every day, or 11 every minute.
When the initial "shots fired" call goes out, everybody is coming. You don't seriously believe 75 police officers just happened to show up at this guy's house for no reason, do you?
Most are ex military. This is how they are trained. They couldn’t wait to do this. I’d be very interested to know how many are ahem new Americans. If any. Defund the police? How about rein them in.
No information was given here to help us understand what caused this, but what it looks like is a lone citizen against a paramilitary group. Who called the police ? Why ? Was this handled in the best way possible ? Why are cops shooting without target I D ? Journalism needs to enter the chat, not just sensational news reporting.
@@THE-COOL-GIRL-CHANNEL It was his brothers home until he died. I would guess the taxes did not get paid after the brother died. So then the State steals the property. So who's trespassing ?
@@Billops 1 guy even if he had an illegal machine gun may of got 30 rounds off the cops would have still had to reload multiple times and from the pictures shown were just spraying bullets in the general direction and not at a specific target which is unsafe for the entire neighborhood. Not saying this guy was a saint but the cops showed no control once they began shooting.
@@jeads21you weren’t there or shot at, one thing anyone who has been in a gun fight is withhold judgement because you probably don’t have ALL the facts
Very poor administration. That Chief looks and acts like he just got out of the academy. Definitely a political hire, just someone's friend. Amazing that anyone would work for that department.
Not sure on story either. Sounds like just from this video,he was being evicted but refused to leave. He said "thier gonna pay", to the neighbor two doors down 2 days prior. So he was definitely armed and ready. But damn, 2 thousand rounds. Can't believe no one else was hurt.
The people in Waco paid their bills and were under no eviction orders. So this is NOTHING like Waco. Innocent people died there, this fool was anything but. The first shot at Waco was not from any BD members, it was from the U.S. Govt'!!! This man shot at the cops and deserved his end.
Sad the fellow lost his life, but seriously....All those poorly placed rounds on the house? It looked like the aftermath of the house Clint Eastwood was in when it got shot to crap in the movie The Gauntlet. I don't know if those 75 officers need to be fired, but while they are "on leave" they sure as heck need some firearm training. (What the heck happened to the 4th rule of gun safety - Be sure of your target and what's behind it.) Even in the Army we did not lob that many rounds that carelessly.
You're supposed to shoot until target is threat blah blah. Soldiers have values. Cops don't anymore. I wish I never served. Best people was my leadership at CID. The best agents were Homeland Security Reservist. Honorable Warrants.
They don’t care if they shot everyone in that neighborhood As long as they felt safe. We are the enemy to them, they are taught this. They are untouchable and we expendable Plain and simple
They send a assault squad to evict this guy when in other places the State are forcing landlords to keep non payer deadbeats in their housing and the State is letting squatters take over taxpaying homeowners houses as if the guy paying for all the utilities and property tax has no rights at all. Wtf is going on.
for the food court loop. Some guy working at Manchu wok or the TV store is going to be hearing this all day tomorrow. What got me was she was talking like these neighbours were watching tv at home and suddenly this happened. I even had that impression not thinking it through following the story, how could that bullit have almost killed her if she was at the Ramada or where ever they sent people. I can't get over 75 officers and that Shield Truck.
"This many cops will be off the streets for a few days, go crazy everybody, it's a free for all!" Anyone else getting this message from that news station?
This is what happens when law abiding citizens no longer trust and respect law enforcement. The justice system isn't exactly filling Americans with confidence these days. I'd like to know the victims side of the story.
@@toddhayes3506 Well if you don't pay taxes, you don't get to keep your property. This is common knowledge amongst law abiding citizens. And when you shoot at the people that come to legally remove you, they remove you in a bag. I knew these facts when I was twelve, this "man" was sixty two years old and couldn't grasp the concept. Hence his state sponsored dirt nap. Good riddance, the state of Pennsylvania is free of one more problem child. Now if they could only ramp up the frequency.
@@toddhayes3506 America, land that I love.... was home of the free and the brave..............but have NOW become a perfect home and environment for satan and his demonic activity. Yes, a perfect environment. You haven’t seen THE WORSE YET...”THAT” IS COMING to a town near you!!! THE WORSE is yet to come.
3:35 "four bullet holes in the wall, any of them could have killed her". OMG! That make me realize any of them could have killed me too. Lucky I was not in Pennsylvania, and she was not in her apartment.
ever notice how the system cant ever seem to help someone out and prevent crimes but they can show up after the fact like a military and make examples out of people?
@@Jeromeeb look at the shooting at UNC Chapel Hill. The kid was bullied and one of the people calling the police said they knew exactly who it was. So they knew who he was but couldn't help him and now everyone wants to pray and offer their thoughts
So they missed him with thousands of rounds and only hit him once? Everyone of those officers needs to go back to the academy for "basic firearms" training.
I’m another post they said the home belonged to his brother. His brother passed away and his father inherited the home. Somehow the home was sold and he felt slighted. I know typically when someone passes the bank will allow refinance/assumption with stable income/credit.
We moved out of Pgh after living and growing up there. The place has really taken a dive. Crime, drug abuse are only part of the problem. Garfield a quiet neighborhood your joking. Downtown Pgh is gone and many businesses are leaving.
😂 Seriously though, it's hard to hit things with tiny projectiles when your fight-or-flight mechanism is restricting your vision, making your hands shake, shutting down feeling in your extremities, etc. This is why cops shoot so many times, once they've decided to shoot. They know that most or all of their bullets are likely going to miss.
You know at some point that you cannot see a person and don't know what you are shooting at. I have always been taught target identification and what is behind the target. Do these police ever do anything like that?
If you lived on that street when the suspect started shooting, then you would want every cop in the city to come there too. You should get better training on evaluating police responses.
Hardison was a Sovereign Citizen. Micah Xavier Johnson shot 9 Dallas PD in 2016, killing 5, was a SC Gavin Eugene Long, shot 6 Baton Rouge PD killing 3, was a SC. Korryn Gaines, young mom in Baltimore, driving a car with "homemade license plates" refused to go to ccourt. Baltimore PD went to her house, she started a gunfight. Actor Wesley Snipes refused to pay taxes, got prosecuted, went to prison.
The problem is republiclans but I don't have a week to explain. Usually common sense works but after U guys got totaled in Las Vegas a few years ago I knew then we are in trouble. Number 1 killer of children in the US too. Amazing. @@fidelcatsro6948
All taxes are treason this is new world order crap no one can find jobs for over 40 yrs real jobs any where and 30 yrs ago I'm arguing my taxes and money city will some won't properly set taxes they want you chargeing 1400 a month 30 n 40 yrs ago for 1200 Sq ft on bath , tiny rooms no garage, they have ut up now expected me to charge even more. Or the money cones out of my side, if I keep it low. They won't pay. They think I'm supposed to give them my properly cusde they have none. So they trash it thinking you can't clean up behind them n you'll give it OK them. I never send the police in to do my evictions. I kept them stay till they get so nasty they can't stay, just to avoid this. And yep I'm front man for thieves in city, so one day guys like me that have shielded all ysll , n paid way past. Our share of theft by the takers , we gonna get our pay back our way cuase nice don't cut it legal. Don't cut it I've always worked 3 jobs to get what I want, they hiring but not paying , I go. Out to Guage the economy n its fucked up night life I've watched it die with bush
There are just some people who have toxic personality disorders and some of those people are “wound collectors” who spend all their lives looking for people to be doing them wrong in whatever way they can imagine. They collect and nurse these wounds, pushing themselves far outside the bounds of reality, and falling into the delusion that it’s the whole world against them and they’re the only one in the world that’s “right”, and everyone else is wrong and against them. They come to view everyone else as their enemy, and when you mix this with America’s gun culture, this is what often ends up being the result in some form or another. This is the price of pretending that everyone is a good guy and that there aren’t ample red flags that someone has a problem that needs to be addressed before they can ever be safe to the public around them. It’s a high ideal, but it really doesn’t serve us well. We’d be better off just facing and dealing with uncomfortable truths and reality on reality’s terms.
What we're doing wrong is not standing up to the evil tyranny we call our local beat cop shops. Most local beat cops are state school educated communists and the conservative gun owning right lives on its knees in front of and worships their local beat commy cops, which enables this tyranny to continue.
@@crscott9908 It was not an eviction it was an ejection. The guy lived there when his brother died and the LLC that supposedly bought the place bought it for 25k and claimed he had no legal right to have even lived there. The entire sale and ejection seems highly suspect and would lead to doubt that it was legal and give cause or at least reasonable cause for the man to defend himself and his property.
@@joeydehart3429 Where did you hear that, lol? His brother left the house to their father and the father wanted him out. Dad got an order of eviction, not an LLC. Alleghany tax records show no lien.
@@joeydehart3429 It was a legal removal from the property no matter what you call it. Nothing excuses his opening fire on Deputies carrying out their duties.
When you have armed people every call is difficult to defuse. As a firefighters for 32yrs calls with guns knives baseball bats glass bottles an sick people don't mix where pd ,fd or social services workers can ever no what in front of you. Just do the best you can till help arrives
His family member just passed away the house was nearly paid for and the city issued a paper for eviction after years paying for the house city sold his house before he could file $25,000 you would be pissed off too! Your family house stolen
Only takes one damn bullet people. Those cops are as accurate as a Storm Trooper in Star Wars. Worst case of improper training ever put on display. I’m ex Army but maybe they should hire a retired Marine with one eye, they would’ve saved all that ammo, damage and embarrassment.
@@solargeneral Keep kissing that boot. Well as a Marine I know that any one of us are better shoots than cops including they swat teams. It is our job to take on peer threats in very hostile situations. If we had of done this the people involved would have been up on charges, and be the laughing stock of their command. 75 loser to take out one old man, such brave defenders of the law.
Only takes one bullet huh? Your military credentials mean nothing. You don't make 100% of the shots you take, especially when you've got variables to account for.
So they unload over a 1000 shots into a home without knowing who else was inside! Forget about the neighbors forget about innocent bystanders who are down range behind the place! This is and was reckless
Now since many cops are taking leave time over this traumatic event, now is the PERFECT opportunity for you Henry to go and apply for a police position so you can mend and make things right. Please keep me posted on how you handled the job and stay safe.
N let's not forget the classic our officers will be put on administrative paid leave Aka paid vacation pending an investigation in which we know there was no wrong doing or over reacting from the officers
His walls were 3ft thick of brick? I’ve done construction for 20 years never seen that, sounds like a fortress. Also, I would think they would’ve got their rifles after SWAT got there at least. Horrible situation for those neighbors.
A question remains: If Mr. Hardeson had no prior history of this type of activity, what drove him over the edge to cause the militarized, Fallujah assault squad to unleash all this? What caused this man to become so disenfranchised and feel so threatened as to give it all up?
It is just a fact that men in our society need a right to have a career with benefits. Paid well so he can get himself a woman to curve and relieve stress. children to provide for. Yet we have greedy idiots enacting wage slavery upon all of us. I do in fact see more and more men retaliating. We need to get this greed under control.
At the end of this report they said that he refused to leave so that’s the other side of the story that they’re not saying what caused all of this this didn’t happen just for no damn reason. This man was upset about something people just don’t go around doing stuff like this was he being evicted from the house I mean who knows.
Dont believe the cops or media. The cops most likely had it coming, but the media and state is turning him into a bad guy terrorist. Anyone who volunteers as a police officer in post 1960s america is a totalitarian pos. Engaging in illegal wars on citizens that violate the 4th, 8th, and 14th amendments, as well as the posse Comitatus Act. The state infringes on the 2nd amendment daily with gun control. Arresting a felon for possessing a gun is deprivation of rights under the color of law. It holds a max penalty of death. Hold your cities accountable. The cops either learn their place, or more incidents like this is their future period.
This happens everyday man humans are becoming destructive freaks! Come on we need to get along right now and become as one! Failure by design isn't a fashion statement humans.
@oneblessedladyallsbrook1057 i got the sarcasm Hense, why I added the The LOL at the end. Looks like that part clearly went over your head. Trying to make someone else look dumb, how's that working for you 🤣🤣😂
