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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.

This is fucking insane! There should have NEVER been a search warrant for a fucking lawn. And they say "code enforcement," but later say it was to comply w/ a HOA covenant, NOT a government code.

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.

Translation: Police set the house on fire, probably by accidentally striking a gas line or something.
Why though? Why were they even there? Why did this ever escalate in the first place?
Why the fuck did they lockdown schools when the dude was refusing to leave his house?
Everything about this screams, "wanna be soldiers practically creaming themselves at their first chance to play pretend terror response".

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.

I totally believe the police narrative of what happened, and I'm sure if the suspect was alive to give his side of the story, it'd still 100% check out, ok?
He absolutely must have been charging out to go down in a "blaze of glory" and not merely trying to escape his blazing house, ok?

Officers got the man away from the house and treated him before he was taken to a hospital, where he died. It's unclear what caused his death.

lol, unclear what caused the death of the guy shot by police

The resident of the home has not been identified. Austin Police spokesperson Jose Mendez said he was a white man in his 50s.

Their main goal Wednesday was to get the man in compliance with the local homeowners association.

And there it fucking is! "Code compliance", my ass!

They attempted to cut the lawn for him, and this is the reaction they got, Mendez said.

Fuck you, Jose Mendez. They invaded his property w/ a small army. What a fucking absolute shit take, and from the official police spokesman, no less.