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...
(Score: 5, Insightful) by CirclesInSand on Friday April 17 2015, @01:33AM
Yeah, it's an irony of SWAT raids. If things were actually so dangerous that all that armor and aggression was necessary, they wouldn't actually do the raids at all in the first place: cops aren't going to voluntarily do anything that puts themselves in significant danger.