Submitted by jkeyc t3_z8c07g in pittsburgh
Heard a lot of sirens and saw police flooring it to Market Square and keep hearing sirens. I'm used to sirens downtown but this was above average.
EDIT: Police went to arrest a group outside of Five Guys, got two of the three and the other fought back and ran and fired shots at the officers, unsure if shots were fired back.
I’m downtown on the G2. Scary as hell.
The cops let the kid go.
The kids saying there was a guy fighting the cops. Take it with a grain of salt, but it’s what they’re saying on the bus.
Not to make light of the situation but all I can imagine is some sort of vaudeville esque routine going on with dispatch.
Wait is it five guys or three? something like that...
Who's on First Ave?
Somebody probably got shot/stabbed
Edit: I fucking called it, go ahead and downvote me, I was right
Ok, what’s next, Nostradamus?
They won’t catch the guy
No they catch him and then let him go with no charges.
Next week maybe one of them will come back to my neighborhood to shoot up a funeral like last time nothing was done about a criminal firing an illegal gun. That was in my area, terrified my poor mother who lives very close to where the funeral was, terrified me and my family. Hopefully they stop letting people go. Yet on one of these other posts about the jail, people mentioned going to jail over the stupidest stuff like a few parking tickets. But shoot with a not legally owned firearm? Sure! Be free! WTF is going on in the world.
Yeah that’s not how it works
It is though.
Not when they shot at cops
You would be very surprised my friend. Maybe not no charges but back on the streets in months with another likely illegal gun? Yup, bet on it.
With a good lawyer, yea they will. Did police identify themselves, properly? If not the defendndant was possibly justified in self defense.
We could play reddit court room all day. I've spent enough time in criminal courts to know this is a least dropped to a plea.
They won't even sniff an attempted murder charge.
Illegal discharge of a firearm, assault of a police officer and any other ticky tacky shit they can add. All of which will be plead down to assault on an officer.
That holds a max 40yr sentence with no minimum. Really doubt dude gets 40 on a plea. Probably 15 with parole eligibility after 10. Again, assuming prosecution actually has the evidence they need. Innocent until proven guilty.
But that's in a perfect world. I got caught up with drugs, cop never showed to any court dates and everything was dropped. I wasn't a small fish. The world isnt perfect.
You were and are still very much a small fish
Ah, yes. You know my life. Just like you know everything that happened downtown last night. My apologies for crossing you, you all knowing being.
What's tonight's pick 4?
3398
I'll split the winnings with you.
It’s a teenager. Where would they put him to begin with? They will let him off like they did with the Kennywood shooter.
I fucking lol’d
Shits gettin real out there
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Fired a gun at cops—do you think they’ll throw the book at him? This gun violence is so tiring
The cops do throw the book at these jagoffs. It’s the magistrates and judges who make sure there’s no consequences for crime in Allegheny County.
Actually that’s the prosecutors that usually fuck up the case with the cops. Judges just apply the law that’s before them.
Search warrant gets tossed because it violates Article 8 or 4th, that’s on the state.
Confession illegally obtained, that’s on the state.
Not in my experience. Better part of 10 years now and I’ve only lost one case to suppression from when I was a rookie.
Everything is a plea or merely dismissed. Anything that sticks is probation or some other laughable consequence.
Yep it happened right near the Oliver Building downtown
what was it tho
A shooting. I wasn’t there my friend told me she hid in the doorway when it started happening
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I work Downtown. We got a security update last night.
This email is an alert for a recent crime that occurred in Downtown Pittsburgh. At approximately 6:45 pm Pittsburgh Police were dispatched to a disturbance outside of Five Guy’s Burgers in Market Square. While taking 2 suspects into custody a struggle ensued and 1 male fled on a bicycle toward Liberty Avenue. While in the area of the Benedum Center, this male displayed a handgun and fired 4 shots at officers. No one was injured and this male was taken into custody without further incident.
One of the guys and like 40 police ran right past my car. I heard 2 shots fired like 20 yards away but wasn’t sure from who.
tthe shots were in another area and unrelated
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Maybe new city leadership would clean up the city’s violent crime problem?
Would say definitely in the long term. Make housing more affordable, be more attractive to employers, and improve public schools. Probably raise minimum wage and decriminalize some drugs so kids do better working than dealing
I just hope voters have a different agenda when the next election rolls around. All I know is the city isn’t too safe right now. At least not as safe as it used to be.
Luckily the real estate bubble is crashing (according to WSB sales are down 24%, worse than 07-08).
Working on the north shore, looks like housing is the biggest problem (we had like 3 tent cities)
Are you talking about the mayor? Didn't he just get into office?
Yes and yes.
How long has he been in office? Wouldn't sufficient time be needed to see any changes?
It’ll be a year in office on January 3rd. We shall see. Obviously I want him to do well because that means good things for the city.
With more affordable housing, resources for addiction, accessible mental health services, early childhood interventions? Excellent idea!
I think it’s deeper than that. I think it’s about realigning community culture. Changing the norms, mores/morals, and values to shun criminal culture. or none of those other things work if no one wants to use them since it’s all voluntary….
Fair point. I would add culture needs resources to adapt and change. Both necessary. I know that there has not been a situation where these resources have been abundantly available and under utilized. People need supports to change
Agreed
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Bro that’s crazy I was at that Five Guys. We thought they were just trying to kick them out for loitering. I must’ve left before anything actually happened because I didn’t hear anything else. Sucks because whatever they were doing they were sitting right next to one of the employee’s kid, so I’m happy nothing happened at that restaurant.
@pgh_scanner is probably my best follow on twitter!
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On the radio a bike cop, on the wrong channel called out with an emergency in very clear distress.
The intel center has it on live video and then called out again to both channels what was going on and managed the event. they probably saved that cops life.
because of the chaos almost everyone south of the rivers went to market square and once it was relayed to the right channel they all went too.
Jasyean
hmm.
Who knows. I live down here and I'm always hearing sirens. Fortunately, I will be moving in about 3 weeks! I'm grateful because I'm not equipped for this city life.
Woke bastards at it again
Boy if more people would just shoot at each other in public places when the situation is ambiguous maybe we would all be more safe!
Jesus, please don't go there. There's enough people around already.
That’s literally what half of the country wants—more guns, guns everywhere! Why didn’t everyone pull out their own guns and shoot this guy, amirite!?
Because we're obviously better than that. Bluv
Comment was a moment of weakness. I agree with you. I’m sick of more guns=more safety logic and I slipped. 🤬😮💨😩
I wasn't even equating that necessarily, I was more speaking of a larger scene manifest. That's a great realistic point you just made. I went against for most of my life while riding the streets (ironic huh). To pro for a decade as a necessity, and I'm slowly coming back into the fold of full semi automatic legalization with extreme personal effort at registration or a military style registration. Ty for the Convo.
What does "woke" mean?
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I’m not sure what’s going on but the cops just pulled a guy off my bus. The bus is sitting here while the cops talk to this guy.