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Man Gets 20 Years for Deadly "Swatting" Hoax:
Tyler Barriss has shown little remorse for the death of Andrew Finch.
Tyler Barriss, whose hoax call to Wichita police led to the shooting death of an innocent man, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Associated Press reports. The sentence in Kansas federal court is a stark reminder of the serious consequences of the deadly prank called "swatting."
The December 2017 death of Andrew Finch began with an online feud over a Call of Duty game. Casey Viner, then around 18 years old, allegedly recruited Barriss to "swat" the Wichita home of Shane Gaskill, who was about 19. Barriss called Wichita police pretending to be a deranged man with a gun holding members of his family hostage, giving what he believed was the target's address.
As Barriss expected, the police responded by dispatching a SWAT team. But Gaskill lied to Barriss about where he lived. As a result, police surrounded a home occupied by the Finch family, which had nothing to do with the online dispute.
When 28-year-old Andrew Finch opened his front door, a police officer shot him. The officer later said he saw Finch reaching for his waist and feared he had a gun. In reality, Finch was unarmed.
[...] In April, the incarcerated Barriss briefly gained access to the Internet—and he took the opportunity to demonstrate that he had learned nothing from his time behind bars.
"All right, now who was talking shit?" he tweeted on April 6, 2018. "Your ass is about to get swatted."
[...] Prosecutors decided not to charge the police officer who shot Finch.
With good behavior, he could get something like 30 months off his sentence. Something tells me he might have difficulty with that "good behavior" part.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Saturday March 30 2019, @10:51PM (2 children)
I disagree. Many of the young people I know are working to create a better world for themselves and those around them. And most of them don't spend much time playing video games. They're lawyers, defending the rights of workers against the folks you say are controlling them. They're doctors and nurses and chiropracters (yes, I know it's bullshit, but he believes he's helping people) who desire to heal and care for others. They're engineers and theater people. And they *all* vote. And they're not shy about speaking out against what they see as unethical, sociopathic and anti-freedom.
They care about the world and the future and want to make it a better place for themselves, their kids and their grand-kids.
Sure, there are lots of folks who feel trapped and know that they won't do better than their parents did -- but that's the reality for gen-xers too.
So, by writing off a large portion of the population as "...a generation without a meaning or purpose," you diminish them and the rest of us.
I'm sorry that you're so bitter and jaded that you don't see what's staring you in the face -- if you're not helping to make things better, you're part of the problem.
So if you really hate where things have been going (and for a long time too), then take steps to create a better world for all of us.
Bitching about how those young'uns have no goals or aspirations is just you projecting your own sense of failure onto them. Is that the legacy you want to leave behind?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:20AM (1 child)
You're making that all up, aren't you? All the doctors I know are older than me.
I have met an attractive young veterinarian, recently. I think the youngsters like animals better than they like people. Or, maybe she just likes animals better than she likes incels? ;^)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:39AM
Where's the '+/-0 What the fuck are you blathering on about?' mod when you need it?