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City's Attempt To Cut Texas Man's Grass Leads To A Standoff, A Fire And His Death
NBC News ^ | 10/28/21 | Elisha Fieldstadt

Posted on 10/28/2021 11:53:24 AM PDT by Enlightened1

An 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.

Police officers and code enforcement officers arrived at a home at 9:16 a.m. to serve a nuisance search warrant, but could not make contact with the resident, Austin Police Chief Joseph Chacon said at an evening news conference.

The warrant was left at the door and contractors for the city's code enforcement began working on the lawn. About an hour later, the resident started shooting from inside the house, Chacon said.

"And they immediately backed off. They got all of the staff that was working on the house to safety and and a SWAT call was initiated for a barricaded subject," he said.

SWAT, mental health officers and a crisis negotiator arrived on scene, but could not get the man out of the home, leading to the lockdown of a nearby elementary school and the closure of several streets.

"SWAT spent the next several hours trying to negotiate with the individual to just simply come out of the house," Chacon said.

At about 3 p.m., the resident started shooting at officers again. "And because of that immediate threat ... they made entry using a robot," Chacon said.

The robot helped officers determine that a fire had been started in the home, and was quickly spreading, he said. Officers still couldn't get the man to come out of the house as it became fully engulfed in flames.

But then the man exited through the garage with weapons in his hand. "At that time, a SWAT officer shot and struck the resident who went down with a gunshot wound," Chacon said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; banglist; cut; lawn; nuisancewarrants; police; qtardqlowns; shooting; texas
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To: Dead Corpse

too bad they couldn’t use those resources to police the border with Mexico


141 posted on 10/29/2021 1:58:41 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Dead Corpse

Did this get out of hand? Yes ... definitely. But what was the factor that took it over the edge? Was it the Karen that reported the overgrown lawn? Was it the city lawn crew that showed up to process the city order to mow the lawn? Was it the city ordinance that says a homeowner must keep his/her property in a somewhat attractive state? Or was it the homeowner that started shooting at the city lawn crew?


142 posted on 10/29/2021 2:01:13 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Jane Long

It is possible that one of the guys in that pic was the one that got the opportunity to shoot a Citizen.


143 posted on 10/29/2021 3:39:33 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: nascarnation

My thoughts exactly.


144 posted on 10/29/2021 3:39:46 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: al_c
But what was the factor that took it over the edge?

The city deciding to enforce a code violation with government guns to back it up. That is a bit over the top, don't you think?

145 posted on 10/29/2021 3:40:42 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Again, SWAT didn’t show up until the guy started shouting at the city crew.


146 posted on 10/30/2021 1:40:29 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Dead Corpse; ETCM
Or is it ok to call SWAT on your neighbors if you don't like the topiary?

Last spring, my "citified" neighbors (with an empty lot) called Code Enforcement on me. "I had too much ivy growing against my house, and an enclosed automobile trailer didn't have a license plate". Threats of daily fines were texted to me.

So, with hired help, I pulled out all the ivy, got a rash, paid $300 for a prescription lotion, and got a tag for the trailer that had been there for 25 years without complaint.

These new complainants had inherited the lot, destroyed the house on it—tearing up MY fence in the process.

With much irony, the ivy had grown up the fence, over to my house, and I liked the shade it provided, didn't have to paint that side and it looked nice, anyway.

It had grown from the decedent's garden from THEIR property!

147 posted on 10/30/2021 3:46:57 PM PDT by Does so (DC: "The Chinese city on top of a hill".)
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To: al_c

You mean shooting at the trespassers that didn’t have the property owners permission to be there.

Why do you keep over looking at fact? Couldn’t be an agenda could it...


148 posted on 10/30/2021 3:51:22 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

They are a hell of lot of people on here [Free Republic.com] who support Red Flag Laws. They were discussed here in at least one thread. Probably more.


149 posted on 10/30/2021 4:16:28 PM PDT by sport
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To: Does so
So, with hired help, I pulled out all the ivy, got a rash, paid $300 for a prescription lotion, and got a tag for the trailer that had been there for 25 years without complaint.

In hindsight, maybe it would have been easier to sit in your house and shoot at people. /s

I think my next move will be to an unincorporated area.

150 posted on 10/30/2021 5:07:49 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: ETCM
I think my next move will be to an unincorporated area.

I wasn't clear.

My new "citified" neighbors live three hours away, and want to sell the lot. This IS is an unincorporated area!

151 posted on 10/30/2021 5:49:56 PM PDT by Does so (DC: "The Chinese city on top of a hill".)
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To: Dead Corpse

Why do you keep overlooking the fact that according to city ordinances they did have the right to be there?


152 posted on 10/30/2021 7:46:24 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: al_c

What gives the City a “right” to tell you the length of your grass?

Your Communist is showing...


153 posted on 10/30/2021 11:22:17 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Dude … I don’t make the laws but they do exist. Take it up with your city … not me.

Good day.


154 posted on 10/31/2021 5:59:17 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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