Prosecutors seek 25 years in prison for deadly Kansas hoax
Federal prosecutors are seeking a 25-year prison sentence for a California man who made a hoax call that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between online gamers.
[...] Barriss faces sentencing Friday in federal court in Wichita for making the false report resulting in a death. He has pleaded guilty to 51 charges related to fake calls and threats across the country.
The defense is seeking a 20-year prison sentence.
Sentencing is set for March 29.
Previously: Swatted: Police Kill Innocent Man in Kansas
Related: Gamers Use Police Hoax to Lash Out at Opponents
Swatter Just Prankster?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 02 2019, @12:31PM (8 children)
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by khallow on Saturday March 02 2019, @12:41PM (7 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 02 2019, @01:02PM (4 children)
polis = city
politēs = citizen
politikos = of, for, or relating to citizens
How is making a decision like starting the apocalypse anything but political?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 02 2019, @01:22PM
Replying to myself as to the contradiction in your phrasing:- an apolitical collapse is by definition not something that could be "sparked" by a human.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 02 2019, @04:58PM (2 children)
You can play that game with anything remotely relevant to cities/citizens/people. The weather is political in a similar fashion - though nobody does anything about it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 02 2019, @05:45PM (1 child)
No. The weather is apolitical, anthropogenic climate change is political while apocalypse literally means revelation. [etymonline.com] Your usage of initiating a catastrophic event must be political but I just found the phrase amusing.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 03 2019, @03:34PM
I guess I swam into a school of red herring.
Except, of course, when it's not.
(Score: 4, Informative) by purdy on Saturday March 02 2019, @01:08PM (1 child)
The domestic terrorism charges stem from Swautistic's calling in a bomb threat to the FCC to disrupt the net neutrality vote.
Threat of violence...Check
Political aim...Check
That'll get you a domestic terrorism charge and rightly so.
Relevant links:
https://www.theverge.com/us-world/2017/12/14/16777178/fcc-net-neutrality-vote-evacuation [theverge.com]
(Complete with video of the police searching the FCC conference room.)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/01/serial-swatter-swautistic-bragged-he-hit-100-schools-10-homes/ [krebsonsecurity.com]
(Score: 2) by opinionated_science on Saturday March 02 2019, @01:17PM
criminally stupid , is still criminal...