Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley targeted in swatting incident
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley targeted in swatting incident
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Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley targeted in swatting incident
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"I swear we're not a cult. We are just trying to remove all opposition to our glorious leader."
— MAGA crew
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Swatting (plural swattings)
1-A motion or gesture that swats; a swat.
2- (US, slang) The action of making an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location.-
That makes a lot more sense thank you.
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You know you're on the right side when the opposition's being swatted.
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I'm pretty sure you're being sarcastic and some have missed the nuance you get verbally.
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I don't think either interpretation is good tbh
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While swatting is a shit thing to do, I feel that police departments that treat these calls as legit without their own due diligence is a much bigger problem.
There needs to be a much more severe punishment for the person who makes the fake call, especially if anyone is hurt as a result of it.
There needs to be a decent charge/punishment absolutely, but harsher punishment will not stop this.
The monopoly of violence lies with the government and they need to treat that with much more tact and finesse than they currently do in the US. No knock raids, SWAT teams filled with former veterans trained to kill by the military are employed without hesitation, this is wrong. The responsibility lies with the government and law enforcement to be more careful and know what they are getting into before even considering employing deadly force.
If anyone dies it should be a 1st degree murder charge.
In Die Hard they got a call of terrorists and sent out one car to take a look. That sounds like a pretty good procedure.
Wait... what was Hans Gruber's plan if McClane didn't throw a chair out the window and shoot a bunch of rounds? He needed the FBI to shut off the power. If Carl just left then the FBI wouldn't show up and the power wouldn't have been cut and he wouldn't be able to open the vault.
I guess he could've called the cops himself later, but they made serious effort to make sure everything looked normal when Carl came in the building.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/police-confirm-christmas-swatting-incident-marjorie-taylor-greenes-hou-rcna131131
MTG is swatted so often that local cops check up w her security team before responding to calls.
Imagine having her as a neighbor. Cops AND gumba security bros all over the place every time she comes back to town. Miserable.
Isn't a big part of the problem how the police respond rather whether they decide to or not?
I am sure there are measures taken to ensure clebs and other prominent people don't have their doors broken down anymore.
Fuck the peasants though. The commoner is probably going to have their house seriously damaged and will still be arrested anyway. If they were doing anything illegal, like smoking weed, charges will be filed but eventually dropped but not after significant expense to the victim. Shit like that can happen, ya know?
For schools that get swatted, I could see this contributing to PTSD in kids in a big way as the MO for cops is to assume that the threat is actually mixed in with the rest of the kids. (That is assuming that an evacuation plan is even implemented.)
Obviously American cops are really bad about this, but how would European cops respond to a bomb threat?
I'm not whatabouting, I acknowledge US cops are the worst. I'm curious if this is a unique issue
The problem is that they don't have time in the situations that get called in to. The nature of the reported crimes demands immediate action.
If they hesitate in those situations it could end like Uvalde.
But surely there's a practical middle between "shoot first, ask later" and "sit and wait an hour"
So, no sweat on the part of the police force then.
Police can dick around for hours between receiving a call and taking any kind of action. Just ask the kids at Uvalde Elementary School.
The issue isn't about time, its about police training that dictates anything that makes them nervous is a target for gunfire. There is no sense of public preservation, its all just Cops-Against-The-World mentality. That's one big reason why cops will always, always, always shoot the family dog. There's simply no incentive to treat any animal as something other than a deadly weapon coming for their throats.
The same officers that spend thirty minutes dicking around outside playing one more round of Candy Crush on their phones will dome you through a window because you spooked them.