A dispute between neighbors in Minneapolis escalated to gunfire last week, leaving one man hospitalized and another taken into custody following an overnight SWAT operation as the city’s police department faces mounting criticism for not making an arrest sooner – despite the victim filing reports of racial harassment and violent threats for months leading up to the shooting,

SWAT negotiators tried to communicate with John H. Sawchak for hours and and eventually breached his home Sunday night, shortly after Chief Brian O’Hara admitted to failing the victim.