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From the NY Daily News (and covered almost everywhere):
A Kansas man shot to death by police earlier this week was the victim of a misdirected online prank known as "swatting," according to social media chatter.
The victim, identified as Andrew Finch, was gunned down on Thursday night after cops responded to his Wichita home amid a false report that he had shot his father to death and was holding his mother, brother and sister hostage.
A responding officer fatally shot Finch, 28, when he came to the front door, Wichita deputy police chief Troy Livingston said during a press conference. Livingston declined to comment on what triggered the officer to open fire and would not say whether Finch was armed.
Police briefing (10m8s). Body camera footage (53s).
I'm speechless.
takyon: The swatting was quickly linked to a dispute between two Call of Duty players:
On Twitter, more than a dozen people who identified themselves as being in the gaming community told The Eagle that a feud between two Call of Duty players sparked one to initiate a "swatting" call. After news began to spread about what happened Thursday night, the people in the gaming community, through Twitter posts, pointed at two gamers.
"I DIDNT GET ANYONE KILLED BECAUSE I DIDNT DISCHARGE A WEAPON AND BEING A SWAT MEMBER ISNT MY PROFESSION," said one gamer, who others said made the swatting call. His account was suspended overnight.
According to posts on Twitter, two gamers were arguing when one threatened to target the other with a swatting call. The person who was the target of the swatting gave the other gamer a false address, which sent police to a nearby home instead of his own, according to Twitter posts. The person who was to be the target of the swatting sent a Tweet saying, "Someone tried to swat me and got an innocent man killed." [...] Dexerto, a online news service focused on gaming and the Call of Duty game, reported the argument began over a $1 or $2 wager over the game.
Update: 911 Call from suspect (4m58s).
Brian Krebs conversed with the apparent suspect over Twitter.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday December 30 2017, @06:38PM (3 children)
ISIS is so terrible in the areas they control because they have immunity THERE. Cops are like ISIS, but HERE. If ISIS did the shit cops do here, they would be prosecuted. If cops did the shit they do in ISIS territory, they would face consequences. Cops==ISIS.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday December 30 2017, @07:58PM (2 children)
Except we already know that is completely wrong. ISIS does all kinds of shit without prosecution (by themselves that is, they might get it from the rest of the world eventually, if they lose badly enough in coming years): murder [dailymail.co.uk], kidnapping [independent.co.uk], theft [businessinsider.com], etc.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 31 2017, @08:19PM (1 child)
OK -- you just aren't getting it.
If ISIS member does violence in America against Americans, that member will be prosecuted because ISIS is not in power in America.
If ISIS member does violence in ISIS controlled area, ISIS member will face no consequences.
If Cop does violence in in ISIS controlled area against ISIS-member, that cop will face "prosecution" -- likely swift and deadly.
If Cop does violence in Cop controlled area (America), cop will face zero consequences.
Thus, Cops and ISIS are the same shit.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday December 31 2017, @08:55PM
Wow. You said nothing about about jurisdiction before. And jurisdiction is near completely irrelevant since a cop almost never acts as a cop outside of their jurisdiction.
And as I already pointed out, ISIS did a lot of stuff (brazen acts of murder, kidnapping, theft, etc) that would put actual cops in jail (and yes, I can point to police officers in jail for these sorts of crimes). This is the sort of immature puffery that lowers the quality of discussion on the internet.