re: an armed man that has fired at police in my neighborhood - helicopters & cop cars out

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What happened? Did they have a mandatory evacuation and he wasn't going to let the government tell him what to do so he was fighting for his civil liberties?

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We have a loud, but extremely small, BLM contingent in this area that calls itself "Cell A65." They're very mad at Hoover PD and Hoover because the City refuses to drop charges against them for illegal activities they participated in when BLM was terrorizing the country last year. Jeffco and Birmingham did drop their charges against similar local groups so they think they can bully our far more conservative area into doing the same. So far Hoover hasn't budged.

It may be that this is just some wackjob, but I'd bet good money that a guy slashing tires in a cop car parking lot in Hoover is a part of that group. They aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

ETA: Cell A65 has a public Facebook page that is easy to find. They've been posting a lot of "feed the homeless" event pics here lately. They're feeding the homeless because they have to get legit community service hours by court order.