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posted by CoolHand on Thursday April 16 2015, @09:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-desserts dept.

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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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:32PM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday April 16 2015, @11:32PM (#171781) Journal

    Swatting should be treated as attempted murder.

    Put just passing a bill that goes after the phony swat report, while doing noting about police seal-team-6 tactics based on some random internet untraceable phone call is just wrong.
    They don't have to bust down doors, throw stun grenades, come in with heavy weapons and assault shields on only one person's untraceable phone call.

    Cops can find better ways to determine if there is a real need for SWAP, via a multitude of methods, from simple drive-by observance, phone call into the premises,
    or just park the swat truck outside, and send a single armored officer to knock on the door, or yell through a megaphone. And when Joe Boxer comes out looking all surprised, and unarmed, they still have no reason to throw him to the ground, cuff him (for is OWN protection!!) and slap him in the backseat of a squad car while they toss the entire house.

    Maybe they need to take a lesson from Lt. Gen. Russel Honore who was tasked with leading federal troops to help rescue thousands still stranded in New Orleans days after the storm. Honore took pains to treat the residents like civilians, not criminals. He ordered weary police officers and his own soldiers to keep their guns pointed down and reminded his troops they were in an American city, not war-torn Iraq.

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