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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.
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And, of course, the cop who jumped the gun gets no punishment. This is exactly why this will keep going on. Other trigger happy cops can be rest assured down the road.
Exactly. It is never the cop’s fault. These people are idiots and deserve to be jailed, but the one who pulled the trigger and actually murdered an innocent person walks away.
I'm generally not a big cop defender, and he fucked up and he should no longer have a gun for his job, but this internet wannabe caused this. Looking at this objectively, I would go after the caller, big time.
Sure, not arguing that. He should go to prison for life in my opinion. But the cop is supposed to use his weapon responsibly, regardless of whether the assault is for a real or a bogus reason. If the SWAT attack was legitimate, we would be blaming the cop for irresponsibly killing an innocent. This is no different.
This isn’t the first time Tyler SWAT’d someone. I hope he gets the punishment he deserves for all his previous crimes and this one too.
If this fuck ever did this to me, I would go Mexican Cartel on this prick, skin him alive, pull out his entrails and post it as a SWAT call.
That’s....perhaps not the best response. An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind.
OMG...you are so right!
And then I would go vote for Elizabeth Warren, for inclusion and all.
This doesn’t make any sense. Are you trolling, or is there a joke I’m not getting?