This group had murdered one cop last time they were evicted after a year long standoff. And there was a fortified bunker on the roof.
Loudspeakers were blaring revolutionary political messages all night long. They did not believe in sanitation, so they piled their garbage wherever they created it, like cavemen.
They thought pest control was inhumane so their neighbors were treated to cockroach and rat infestations that could not be stopped.
Police moved in to evict them after a court order. They were correctly prepared for war because last time that happened it turned into a year long stand off after the first cop trying to simply serve an eviction order was shot in the back.
As they conducted this latest operation and standoff, it was too dangerous until that bunker on the roof was taken out.
Police are not designed to go up against pillboxes. If you build one and murder cops, you can expect unusual responses borne partly out of not really knowing exactly how to approach it.
***Police are not designed to go up against pillboxes. ***
I remember seeing on live TV the Howard Johnson Hotel shootings in New Orleans back in 1973.
After shooting several civilians and cops, the shooter took refuge in the top of an elevator shaft made of cast concrete. One sharp shooter tried to break through the wall with an elephant gun, finally he came out and was shot dead, but the belief he had others in there with him led the police to continue shooting till they stormed the cubicle.
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