Video Gamer Gets SWAT Raided During Live Stream

[orenbus]

From Reddit:

Cop: "What about this is funny to you?"
Game: "Terrorists Win."
Guy: "Nothing..."

He's lucky his sound was on headphones, just imagine the cops walking in and the game going "You have the bomb!" "Terrorists win!"
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Also the pistol cocking sound when the round started. Probably not the best sound for a SWAT team to hear as they're frisking you.
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"Okay boys, now we fight!" (round being chambered)

[SeanTX]

Here is an interview between local channel 7 news anchor and a guy who has taken credit for the prank call:

That looks like another case of a news station being pranked -- I don't think anyone is going to be texting on the phone while the FBI is searching his house.

"Why did I do it ... because I can." Prank or not, the guy should be a cop -- that's their attitude also.

[nobody's_hero]

When I get a different house, definitely getting metal doors. It's ridiculous that all someone has to do is call in and the cops will deliver 5 guns pointed at your head.

Only people with something to hide would have metal doors, comrade.

[CPUd]

in b4 News 7 gets SWAT'd

[muh_roads]

This is the report.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/educ...k-in/14689151/

The caller used a practice known as "swatting" when he called 911 at around 11:30 a.m. claiming to have killed co-workers inside a building near Mineral and Broadway. He also claimed to have set bombs inside.

That's a pretty $#@!ty prank.

[aGameOfThrones]

the police chief said, "We have real guns and real bullets, and there's potential there for some tragedy."


Like you need an excuse for that^

[SeanTX]

in b4 News 7 gets SWAT'd

The sad thing is, that would actually be a *good* thing. Things will have to get a lot worse before they will ever get any better. Let everybody have a little taste of state-sponsored mayhem and chaos.

People can blow off "wrong door" raids as being something that's about as likely to happen to them as being hit by lightning . And they can say, "oh well, that's what you get for living in the 'hood next door to drug dealers."

However, if more and more people get "SWATTED", especially high-profile non-mundane targets -- more inoccents targeted in areas outside "the 'hood" --, then maybe more people will start questioning why the police are doing military-style raids based on anonymous tips and the word of dubious "informants."

[orenbus]

[Muwahid]

nobody else thinks that whole thing looks fake???

the cop's voices at the beginning sound like frat boys trying to sound like cops.

If you have a relative in the police force, piece of cake to "hey guys. Let's make a crazy video!!!"

they're all crisis actors

[orenbus]

CNN & BBC coverage

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/...e-in-hoax.kdvr

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28970473

[ChristianAnarchist]

Can S.W.A.T. teams get ANY more idiotic than they are now?? Next they will be swatting grandma's bridge club...

[heavenlyboy34]

Can S.W.A.T. teams get ANY more idiotic than they are now?? Next they will be swatting grandma's bridge club...

Any government agency can get dumber. Just give it time...

[Jackie Moon]

Can S.W.A.T. teams get ANY more idiotic than they are now?? Next they will be swatting grandma's bridge club...

They've already swatted grandmas' poker games so bridge could be next...

In 2007 a Dallas SWAT team actually raided a Veterans of Foreign Wars outpost for hosting charity poker games. Players said the tactics were terrifying. One woman urinated on herself.

When police raided a San Mateo, California, poker game in 2008, card players described cops storming the place “in full riot gear” and “with guns drawn.” The games had buy-ins ranging from $25 to $55. Under California law, the games were legal so long as no one took a “rake,” or a cut of the stakes. No one had, but police claimed the $5 the hosts charged players to buy refreshments qualified as a rake.

In March 2007, a small army of local cops, ATF agents, National Guard troops, and a helicopter raided a poker game in Cary, North Carolina. They issued forty-one citations, all of them misdemeanors. A columnist at the Fayetteville Observer remarked, “They were there to play cards, not to foment rebellion. . . . [I] wonder . . . what other minutiae, personal vices and petty crimes are occupying [the National Guard’s] time, and where they’re occupying it. . . . Until we get this sorted out, better not jaywalk. There could be a military helicopter overhead.”

Indeed, that’s exactly what happened to seventy-two-year-old Aaron Awtry in 2010. Awtry was hosting a poker tournament in his Greenville, South Carolina, home when police began breaking down the door with a battering ram.

Awtry had begun carrying a gun after being robbed. Thinking he was about to be robbed again, he fired through the door, wounding Deputy Matthew May in both arms. The other officers opened fire into the building. Miraculously, only Awtry was hit.

As he fell back into a hallway, other players reporting him asking, “Why didn’t you tell me it was the cops?” The raid team claimed they knocked and announced several times before putting ram to door, but other players said they heard no knock or announcement.

When Awtry recovered, he was charged with attempted murder. As part of an agreement, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison. Police had broken up Awtry’s games in the past. But on those occasions, they had knocked and waited, he had let them in peacefully, and he’d been given a $100 fine.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%...ut_of_control/

[pcosmar]

The sad thing is, that would actually be a *good* thing. Things will have to get a lot worse before they will ever get any better. Let everybody have a little taste of state-sponsored mayhem and chaos.

People can blow off "wrong door" raids as being something that's about as likely to happen to them as being hit by lightning . And they can say, "oh well, that's what you get for living in the 'hood next door to drug dealers."

However, if more and more people get "SWATTED", especially high-profile non-mundane targets -- more inoccents targeted in areas outside "the 'hood" --, then maybe more people will start questioning why the police are doing military-style raids based on anonymous tips and the word of dubious "informants."

And all these years later,, and many more incidents.

and they are still killing by anonymous tip.