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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.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by cubancigar11 on Saturday December 30 2017, @08:45AM (1 child)
Off topic? Brain damage must be common among modders.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday December 30 2017, @03:40PM
I think you're on the right track. (I admit to trouble parsing it.) We can see where the misogynerd narrative is going. All assigned males in tech are collectively and severally responsible for sex slavery. All assigned males in tech are Cock of Duty players and murderers too. And let us not forget that we have to protect the Hunnies from all this!
Yes, we have to protect the Hunnies. I'm going to start using the word again, because that's exactly what will be going on in 2018. Womyn-born-womyn are the coddled victims. They are superior, complete beings who, despite this supposed ascendancy and superiority, cannot take responsibility for themselves. They can't be arsed to take advantage of the absolutely wealth of information online to learn programming because of all the supposedly evil people assigned to a certain caste, a legal construct in our gender caste system. Even worse, all assigned males, even ones who voted for Hillary, are responsible for Trump.
The Hunnies that voted for Trump and brought this shit on themselves are off the hook! Instead of holding Trump accountable along with his female voters, instead of holding the DNC accountable, watch as the Hunnies, cowards that they are, begin holding all assigned males responsible for the fucking joke in Washington.
Net neutrality is gone, and watch as men's rights websites are slowly null routed by every major ISP. Somehow, feminists even managed to manipulate things such that many men were ready to put in place a way to silence the MHRM. Men need to be smarter than this. All assigned males are now officially under attack. Sex trafficking and murder are serious accusations.
Womyn-born-womyn are lazy cowards and will find every excuse under the sun to keep themselves ignorant of tech. First it was sexual harassment and generalized misogyny. Remember how compiler error messages were oppressing the Hunnies? Now the media is going to seriously begin painting all assigned males as murderers and sex traffickers. The stuff with journalists and Hollywood being held accountable for their sexual predators? Just a cynical attempt to move the Overton window, and I'm ashamed I fell for it.
For what end? Are we going to get a universal basic income for womyn-born-womyn only (as if we do not effectively have such a thing already)? How can rejecting career and education in favor of having 10 kids and leeching off welfare possibly be a feminist value? Because feminism doesn't stand for the things it claims to stand for. Feminists are liars and bigots, and they will lie to you with a straight face. Actions speak louder than words.
If somebody here doesn't like my usage of Hunnies—and I now hope to use the word to exclusively to attack womyn-born-womyn—perhaps womyn-born-womyn might consider not acting like children. Let's not kid ourselves. Feminism is sucking the cock of the patriarchy big time. What is the patriarchy? Men with power and privilege, which the vast majority of assigned males do not have, and therefore cannot be complicit. How does that go? Sexism is only notable when there's a power dynamic? Well, here's a power dynamic, and if you were assigned the male gender at birth, regardless of your body parts, you are on the losing end of that power dynamic unless you drew a one in a million winning golden ticket.
Personally, I'm fucking sorry that I keep giving feminism the benefit of the doubt from time to time. It won't happen again. Feminism is clearly a hate group. They will keep blowing up these stories no differently from how white supremacists love to blow up stories about some kind of failure on the part of a minority group. The white supremacist uses others' misfortunes and lack of privilege as a reason to say, “Look here! See how inferior blacks and Mexicans are! See how violent and dangerous they are!” The feminist, otherwise known as a womyn-born-womyn supremacist, uses the exact same tactics. “Look here! See how inferior assigned males are! See how violent and dangerous they are!”
Everybody assigned the male gender at birth will need to stick together. We don't have time for white supremacy. We are a demographic minority if only slightly, but a minority nonetheless. Feminism wants to turn the USA and every other country into a direct democracy, because womyn-born-womyn can simply steamroller over human rights for half the planet's population in direct democracy.