"You Kill Me Figuratively, I Kill You Literally" - CoD

[The of Japan]

In Freedomstan it's pretty common for you to get charged with murder or a fairly equivalent charge if you do something that directly leads to someones death iirc. IE if you convince a buddy to come with you and break into my house and I shoot and kill him it's not impossible that you'll be charged with murder or some such.

What you're thinking of is the felony murder rule, and as you might guess from the name it's about charging all the perpetrators of a felony with murder if someone dies in the course of their felony.

Making a prank call to 911 doesn't sound like it's likely to be a felony. Maybe it should be, depending on the content of the call, but I'm confident that cases don't get tried on what the law should be.

Telling someone online, someone who is threatening to call SWAT on you, that you live at 123 Fake Street is definitely not any kind of crime. There's no way there's a legal duty to give randos on the internet your real address if asked.

swatting is a crime

[Petrasylvania]

What you're thinking of is the felony murder rule, and as you might guess from the name it's about charging all the perpetrators of a felony with murder if someone dies in the course of their felony.

Making a prank call to 911 doesn't sound like it's likely to be a felony. Maybe it should be, depending on the content of the call, but I'm confident that cases don't get tried on what the law should be.

Telling someone online, someone who is threatening to call SWAT on you, that you live at 123 Fake Street is definitely not any kind of crime. There's no way there's a legal duty to give randos on the internet your real address if asked.

swatting is a crime

Source?

[The Conez Imperium]

All these people in this thread going "blame the twat who called the cops, but please don't blame the sweet, poor, hardworking cops who shot an innocent man for opening his door" really activates my almonds. I mean, holy hell, what would take for y'all to actually admit that a cop should be criminally punished for killing an innocent person while duty?

Every single person involved in this other than the victim is a stupid fucking asshole responsible for the unjustifiable, unnecessary violent death of an innocent. Throw the book at every one of them if you have any decency.

Exactly. I hope they all get justice for the idiocy at play

[The Conez Imperium]

swatting is a crime

Source?

Probably...just think about it....

According to wikipedia

United States

In the United States swatting can be prosecuted through federal criminal statutes:

"Conspiracy to retaliate against a witness, victim or informant"[19][20]
"Conspiracy to commit access device fraud and unauthorized access of a protected computer"[19][21]
An accomplice may be found guilty of "conspiring to obstruct justice"[22][23]
In California, pranksters bear the "full cost" of the response which can range up to $10,

[The of Japan]

swatting is a crime

Source?

https://www.law.com/ctlawtribune/almID/ ... 1130234426

[Ifreann]

How long until the media use this to reinforce their "videogames cause violence" narrative"?

To be fair, as a gamer who's watched lots of people play CoD, I gotta say that those particular games seem to turn everyone into thoughtless, raging dicks.

This is why step 1 of every successful game of COD is to mute all the other players.

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Source?

Probably...just think about it....

According to wikipedia

United States

In the United States swatting can be prosecuted through federal criminal statutes:

"Conspiracy to retaliate against a witness, victim or informant"[19][20]
"Conspiracy to commit access device fraud and unauthorized access of a protected computer"[19][21]
An accomplice may be found guilty of "conspiring to obstruct justice"[22][23]
In California, pranksters bear the "full cost" of the response which can range up to $10,

I feel like you may have missed s few digits at the end of that quote.

[Greed and Death]

Police most likely have the number of the people who called in the swatting, trace it back, report it over to the responsible law enforcement entity and charge them as appropriate for the incident. Hopefully once people see that their are real life consiquences to these actions will see a reduction in this nonesense sooner rather then later.

They used advanced spoofing so they do not know for certain who it is.

If the suspect keeps his mouth shut he might walk. Given keeping your mouth shut is not a strong point among gamers. My guess is he said something like its not my fault I am not a cop blagh blahg.

[MERIZoC]

Clear murder by the police. Arrest the officer and sentence him, and then do the same to the caller who phoned in the fake alert.

[Otira]

He almost certainly could be hit with murder for causing the whole thing, and absolutely should be.

So a prosecutor is going to have to convince a jury that the police are so trigger happy that making a false report to them is no different from pulling the trigger yourself.

That'll be interesting.

That would make for an interesting trial and movie afterwards about the whole thing. Starring Idris Elba as the lawyer.

[Shofercia]

They caught the swatter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/pos ... ill-a-man/

I'm using that link, because it also has a 911 call. Throw the book at him. He needs jail time for a long, long time.

[Petrasylvania]

Somebody's going to praise him as a hero just to be edgy and trolltastic, it's inevitable unfortunately.

[The Black Forrest]

That was disturbing. Charge the swater and really look into why the cop killed the victim.......

[Ifreann]

That was disturbing. Charge the swater and really look into why the cop killed the victim.......

Investigate a police shooting? Why do you hate our brave boys in blue?! Just take the hero officer's word that the suspect was going for a gun, probably.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Hope they throw the cunt in a cell for a long long long time.

[Dooom35796821595]

That was disturbing. Charge the swater and really look into why the cop killed the victim.......

Investigate a police shooting? Why do you hate our brave boys in blue?! Just take the hero officer's word that the suspect was going for a gun, probably.

Blue? Since when do the super edgy SWAT teams wear blue?

[Ethel mermania]

That was disturbing. Charge the swater and really look into why the cop killed the victim.......

Investigate a police shooting? Why do you hate our brave boys in blue?! Just take the hero officer's word that the suspect was going for a gun, probably.

They look aweful in blue, need better colors.

[Neutraligon]

I actually feel a bit bad for the cop. They where called into what they thought was a hostage situation where the claim was that the house was also doused in gas. In such a situation you are going to be on edge. Do I think they should look into whether that person should be on SWAT yes, am I going to blame them for the shorting, not right now. The person I do blame is the person who swatted in the first place. They I think deserve to be in jail for a very long time.

[Zanera]

I actually feel a bit bad for the cop. They where called into what they thought was a hostage situation where the claim was that the house was also doused in gas. In such a situation you are going to be on edge. Do I think they should look into whether that person should be on SWAT yes, am I going to blame them for the shorting, not right now. The person I do blame is the person who swatted in the first place. They I think deserve to be in jail for a very long time.

I think they have a history of swatting too.
They fucked up really bad this time.
Don't think they'll be playing COD for a long time...hopefully. They need to just quit the controller.

[Neutraligon]

I actually feel a bit bad for the cop. They where called into what they thought was a hostage situation where the claim was that the house was also doused in gas. In such a situation you are going to be on edge. Do I think they should look into whether that person should be on SWAT yes, am I going to blame them for the shorting, not right now. The person I do blame is the person who swatted in the first place. They I think deserve to be in jail for a very long time.

I think they have a history of swatting too.
They fucked up really bad this time.
Don't think they'll be playing COD for a long time...hopefully. They need to just quit the controller.

They have indeed swatted before. I think that companies should permanently ban players who swat, from any and all games they produce.

[Reploid Productions]

I think they have a history of swatting too.
They fucked up really bad this time.
Don't think they'll be playing COD for a long time...hopefully. They need to just quit the controller.

They have indeed swatted before. I think that companies should permanently ban players who swat, from any and all games they produce.

Problem is that making a new account is often a very trivial concern. Some companies mitigate this with paywalls to force people to put their real identities into the system so that they can be barred/traced more reliably, but that has its own drawbacks as well. I totally agree that they should be banned, but in practice actually doing so can be especially difficult to do.

[Neutraligon]

They have indeed swatted before. I think that companies should permanently ban players who swat, from any and all games they produce.

Problem is that making a new account is often a very trivial concern. Some companies mitigate this with paywalls to force people to put their real identities into the system so that they can be barred/traced more reliably, but that has its own drawbacks as well. I totally agree that they should be banned, but in practice actually doing so can be especially difficult to do.

Oh I know. All we have to do is look at the dos here to know how hard it is.

[Reploid Productions]

Problem is that making a new account is often a very trivial concern. Some companies mitigate this with paywalls to force people to put their real identities into the system so that they can be barred/traced more reliably, but that has its own drawbacks as well. I totally agree that they should be banned, but in practice actually doing so can be especially difficult to do.

Oh I know. All we have to do is look at the dos here to know how hard it is.

I suspect if we required like a $5 fee to create a nation that'd eliminate a lot of problem behaviors, but it'd also kinda sorta maybe murder the playerbase and growth, so...

[Zanera]

Oh I know. All we have to do is look at the dos here to know how hard it is.

I suspect if we required like a $5 fee to create a nation that'd eliminate a lot of problem behaviors, but it'd also kinda sorta maybe murder the playerbase and growth, so...

At least I'm fine. I already created my nation years ago.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I just heard about this incident. The prank caller should get, at a minimum, life without parole.

[Petrasylvania]

Massachusetts representative Katherine Clark is sponsoring a bill to make swatting a federal crime, so that jurisdiction is not an issue when nailing douchebags who make swatting calls across state lines or even from another country.

New bill would crack down on 'swatting' hoaxes

Strengthening her case, Clark was personally swatted after introducing the bill.

Sponsor of federal anti-swatting bill targeted by swatting hoax