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posted by takyon on Saturday December 30 2017, @04:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the yellow-stripe-down-the-back-of-the-uniform dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday December 31 2017, @03:07AM (2 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday December 31 2017, @03:07AM (#616053) Journal

    Kurenai, for the last fucking time, I am one of the ones who's on your side. Your constant, borderline-schizophrenic ranting not only does you personally no favors, but pushes the stereotype of transwomen as unstable crazy drama queens into the spotlight. You are harming other transwomen, do you understand this?

    You want to be physically female, but at the same time you seem to hate women. So...what gives? How does it make any sense to hate what you want to be? You are one sick little puppy, Kurenai, and I'm out of patience with you and your tantrums. Go fuck yourself.

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  • (Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday December 31 2017, @04:17PM (1 child)

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Sunday December 31 2017, @04:17PM (#616151) Journal

    Good. Moving the misogynerd narrative to a blanket accusation of sex trafficking against everybody legally male in tech was too much.

    I didn't choose to have a female mind. I don't want to be an overweight, diabetic baby mamma with 10 kids from 8 different fathers living off welfare. If that means I'm not a woman, then sure, of course not!

    You assholes have gobs of privilege, and you abuse it horribly. How many women are involved in sex trafficking as pimps? Don't tell me the number is 0 because I fucking know better. This newest accusation of sex trafficking is nothing more than sick psychological projection.

    I'm glad we're agreed that the other can get fucked at this point.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday December 31 2017, @10:50PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday December 31 2017, @10:50PM (#616247) Journal

      What the fuck are you ranting about? None of that addresses anything I said. Get off the internet, go have some tea or something, and calm down before you post again. You're going to collapse of apoplexy and die at your keyboard at this rate.

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