Code inspector goes to house over tall grass complaints; resident has mental health crisis and points gun at inspector; cops come in armored vehicle and shoot resident to death

1. Armored police vehicle
2. The police fired 20 shots or so at one person who could have been subdued with one or two shots to the leg

All of this could have been avoided if the city inspector just hired a contractor to cut the grass and billed the person for the cost plus fines.

I'm so glad I moved out of the US.

These are the kind of things that literally will only ever happen in the US. Imagine sending a tank to enforce HOA lawn rules, what a country.

“If I knew that he was having difficulty maintaining his yard then I know that any one of us would’ve pitched in and done it for him,” said Heather Blackwelder.

Fuck off, you literally didn't even know your neighbor and no one even cared until this happened.

A little while back I was coming home from work and got a text from my partner that the cops had blocked off the adjacent road to ours.

When I got home I saw a helicopter flying overhead, the cross street was taped off with yellow tape, and there were at least 12 if not more police vehicles all the way up and down that road with cops in body armor and rifles/shotguns standing all over the place.

We ventured over to see what the hell was going on. We found out from a neighbor that the lady down the road, who is very well known to everyone in the area to have mental issues but is harmless, was "barricaded" in her apartment. Then we found that another neighbor had called the cops because the lady had pulled a knife on her kids. I found that really hard to believe and having only recently met the lady who called the cops I was more inclined to believe she was making that up than it being actually true. The cops apparently had sent a robot with a phone to the apartment. They had armored vehicles and swat guys hanging out on the street. They had unmarked vehicles with cops up and down the side streets. It was absolutely bonkers.

I thought there was a good chance this mentally ill woman was not going to live another day. They took another statement from the neighbor who called them and then just like that, they packed up their shit and cleared out. The unmarked cop cars hung around all over the place but all the other cops left and took all their murder toys.

I never found out what actually happened but I'm happy to report the cops did not actually kill that woman amazingly enough. However, had she been mentally ill and not white I highly doubt that would have been the outcome.