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A New Jersey state legislator who is sponsoring a bill against swatting, has himself been swatted:
According to a report by NJ.com, Moriarty received a phone call at his home on Saturday from a police officer asking if everything was okay; the assemblyman was then informed that someone had anonymously called in a report of a shooting at the home. He was then told to describe his clothing and step outside, where he saw a crowd of officers armed with "helmets, flak jackets and rifles."
There was no mention if the legislator questioned the over-militarizing of the police or no-knock raids...
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New Jersey Legislator Who Sponsored Anti-Swatting Bill Gets Swatted
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anal Pumpernickel on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:13PM
You want to charge all the cops? Because they're the ones who go insane when they have no evidence of anything. Or do you think the cops should have no responsibility for their own actions (even if they're being required to go to the scene), and that we should just ignore the fact that we know people sometimes lie? That fails to deal with the underlying problem: The cops resort to overwhelming force without understanding the situation.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Soybean on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:34PM
> The cops resort to overwhelming force without understanding the situation
It's OK, they are just following procedure. And sadly, we can't really expect anything more of them than to follow procedure because procedure is what gives them CYA.
The problem is "procedure" was designed for one specific worst-case movie-plot scenario - psyscho killer who will immediately murder his hostages once he finds out the cops are outside. I don't really know, but my gut says that's probably the rarest actual scenario in real-life.