MOVE was an armed and violent authoritarian cult.
Had MOVE not been storing incendiary materials on the roof, the explosive to remove the fortified bunker up there would not have started the fire.
The city's actions were unjustifiable in not turning the water cannon back on after the fire started on the roof.
By leaving out all of the MOVE Commission's findings, the information above in this thread is not accurate.
When an armed and violent authoritarian cult decides to hunker down in response to an attempt to serve a lawful warrant, bad things happen. They certainly happened in the Osage Avenue series of events, and they certainly happened with the Branch Davidians, and similar situations in which heavily armed persons harboring children do not permit the execution of lawful warrants.
To be clear, for those who might not be familiar with the situation, this cult was turning a city row home into an armed fortress:
We're not talking about "a bullhorn". We are talking about a PA system that was wired to blast speeches through the neighborhood around the clock.
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