![]() A complaint about the length of grass resulted in shots fired, a standoff, and a dead Austin resident. “They attempted to cut the lawn for him, and this is the reaction they got,” Mendez said. Their main goal Wednesday was to get the man in compliance with the local homeowners association. The final insult to the dead man are the last two sentences of the article, one of which features Austin PD spokesman Jose Mendez. This paragraph shows an alarming amount of deference to the sources for this reporting, all of which appear to be law enforcement officials. It seems pretty clear what caused his death. People with bullets in them have a greatly reduced chance of surviving. People who have zero bullets in them tend to remain alive. He went to the hospital with at least one bullet in him. Really? That's the reporting? Presumably the man left the house without any bullets in him. Officers got the man away from the house and treated him before he was taken to a hospital, where he died. "At that time, a SWAT officer shot and struck the resident who went down with a gunshot wound," Chacon said. That leads to another tragicomical bit of view-from-nowhere reporting: At that point, SWAT team members shot him. This finally prompted the resident to leave his house, which he did through his garage while carrying guns. That's when officers noticed the house was on fire. The cops sent a robot in to deal with the resident and his gun. The SWAT team rolled in, along with its presumably less-violent entourage, leading to a standoff that was broken by the resident again firing his gun from inside his house. Who knows what was going on in the resident's mind? And, I guess, who cares, now that he's dead? Several hours were spent trying to get the resident out of his house… to mow his lawn? Sometime after the officers left a warrant posted on the door and "code enforcement officers" began mowing the resident's lawn, the resident decided to start firing his gun from inside his house. And that's before things went haywire, resulting in the arrival of the Austin PD SWAT team, mental health officers, and a crisis negotiator. But this "nuisance" homeowner was confronted by an unknown number of police officers and code enforcement officers. The Nuisance Abatement Unit works “behind the scenes” with property owners and other city departments in an attempt to first gain voluntary compliance with properties that have been deemed a “nuisance”. The Nuisance Abatement Unit is composed of one Detective and one Sergeant. ![]() Here's how the Austin PD describes this arm of its law enforcement efforts: But it was only a "nuisance" search warrant, which means the only crime committed was administrative - a violation of homeowner-focused codes that aren't considered actual criminal offenses. The word "warrant" carries the implication that some serious crime was the impetus for this deployment of Austin police officers. It's also absurd to write that something resulted in something when it involves police shooting someone because the fact is police shot and killed someone and that's what should be noted, rather than semi-obscured with phrasing that suggests police were powerless to stop their own violence. ![]() The second thing you'll notice is the phrase "resulted in shots fired," as if the end result of these actions were the inevitable outcome of "providing lawn care." This, of course, is an absurd statement. ![]() First, there's the phrase "provide lawn care" - the sort of service that wouldn't normally generate local news headlines, much less coverage from a national news network. You'll immediately notice two things about this sentence. It starts, as so many stories about police violence do, with some needlessly exonerative reporting by journalists - in this case by Elisha Fieldstadt of NBC News.Īn 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. It encompasses a lot of distinctly American issues, ranging from law enforcement violence to the disturbing ability of private individuals and entities to reliably summon law enforcement and bring about the destruction of others. ![]() If you're feeling especially strapped, let him go and pocket the money otherwise feel free to blow his side parting off and walk away with a unique item.This is one of the most horrendous - and one of the most American stories - I have ever read. For what it's worth, you get roughly 10-20 Pesos for every kill done in this manner, so it's hardly a huge source of income and you'd have to go through a lot of poisoned Castillos to make 5000. At this phase in the game you're likely doing well enough financially-speaking that 5000 Yaran Pesos won't make or break you, but that's also the reason why getting that wrist band isn't especially essential. Of these two options, we suggest going for the kill, though it probably doesn't matter much either way. ![]()
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