you have to be one sick twisted individual to be swatting a person, let alone a freaking elderly woman
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While she's trying to raise money for her grandkid's cancer treatment, no less.
Seriously, fuck whoever did this.
Dark thought, what if a supporter did it, 'cuz that kid is definitely getting their treatment paid for now.
Damn, it did make the news after all.
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We're in Generation Duh where people think doing this kind of thing is funny. But it's funny only to them, was thought up of in 2 minutes, then discarded once any attention has been brought to it before they think of the next stupid idea that they think is funny.
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This happens frequently enough where you'd think there would be a system in place to prevent this type of abuse.
But then they wouldn't get to cosplay as action heroes.
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All cops are idiots.
Never ceases to amuse me how they send a ridiculous amount of deputies to one situation. They couldn't agree on a team or maybe two qualified people, no, let's send the whole fucking department and have extras just incase.
Meanwhile, when an actual credible threat is ongoing: "We'll send our best confrontation avoider and check back in about 3 hours from now"
I will never forgive Uvalde police for that school shooting situation. Not only did they do nothing to stop the shooter, they actively held back parents who were going to do the cops jobs for them.
If I remember right, 23 kids, and 3 staff members died that day in an attack that took hours, but should have been stopped in minutes. They arrived on the scene 6 minutes after being called. Then they let it go on and on and on.
I will never forgive Uvalde police.
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Takes a special kind of asshole to swat a little hold lady for trying to host a wholesome gaming stream for a good cause.
The fact that swating still happens just proves how much of a joke policing is in general. The fact that you can get a bunch of gun-wielding adrenaline junkies to show up somewhere, frothing at the mouth for violence, in the most spurious of ways is a damning indictment for the whole institution.
Yet they won't do a damn thing if someone is actually assaulting you.
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Reminder that SWAT was created in response to the black panthers. It's a Jim Crow tool for dealing with uppity blacks that know their rights.
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Confused european here - why?
Since guns are handed out in America like chocolate at a Willy Wonka publicity and outreach campaign, every law enforcement agency has to be kitted out to potentially combat a barricaded suspect who can rain a small militia's worth of lead on them and their surroundings. That's why the response team often includes armored vehicles, snipers, and crayon munchers armed to the tits. And because abusing emergency services doesn't cut into the profit of any big corporations, there are no effective means to seek justice against the offenders.
abusing emergency services
I don't understand - someone called the swat team on her? Why would they go to a private house with a giant swat force based solely on some anonymous tip? That makes no sense in my head.
Because they have the equipment and are always looking for an excuse to use it to justify the cost and training. And because the more they use it, the sooner they can get more of it.
It makes zero sense to a normal person, nor does their justification for needing the equipment in the first place, but once they have it they'll use it any chance they get.
someone called the swat team on her?
some anonymous tip
That's not what happened. Someone called 911 and described a situation that involved a shooter who has already shot someone. The 911 operator then had to relay that to the responders (in this case, LE). The responding officers might have only received an address, that there was a barricaded active shooter, and that there was at least one shooting victim.
It's not up to the police to debate the veracity of a report. Imagine being in a hostage situation, you manage to call 911, and they respond with "sounds fake, not coming".
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Its called swatting. You call police and say someone is dangerous and they come running with all the gear to justify the bloated budgets. Kids were doing this pretty often in the news a decade ago. Especially to streamers.
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It's an American thing. The goal is to hopefully use the police to kill the streamer since police often are skittish and tend to shoot first before verifying what is going on.
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Just here to point out that it's not normal for a military response to some rando calling in a hit on someone's house.
A normal response is a check by a single police car with two officers. One to knock on the door and ask questions. The other to remain with the vehicle to call in any issues.
This is a police state.
They probably reported to the operator an excess of melanin at the residence.
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Kudos to granny for being so positive about it and acknowledging that the cops have to follow up on the calls they receive, but if some anonymous tipster can bring down a SWAT team on some grandma's house without any kind of check being triggered, that might indicate that there are some problems about how these issues are being handled.
People have already died from swatting. Faster and cheaper than hiring an assassin.
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How the fuck is swatting even a thing?
Can just anyone call the police, yell "BOMB AT X ADDRESS!" and they just show up, tear down doors and throw you to the ground????
All, without repercussions????
Not only without repercussions, but without reparations. Anything destroyed or damaged is on the owner to replace/fix, including the pile of splinters formerly known as "door".
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And these police organisations keep spouting “but we need more funds, to protect the community”
No, you fucking dont, you’re wasting your resources by attempting to uphold your strict quotas rather than actually serve and protect the community.
Why I quit MMOs and never looked back, because even more than 20 years ago toxic behavior was being normalized, and that included offline PK.
Fucking little assholes nearly killed a grandmother.
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I'm still amazed that this keeps happening but somehow, no one is ever caught?
Considering our telecons can't (won't) even enforce basic fucking origin checking, it's not surprising.
These companies have was of validating calls, it just takes money to setup and enforce, and we can't waste money on silly things like basic safety when the shareholder value is at stake.
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Whoever did this needs to be charged with attempted murder. You can't expect that police get a report of a threat at a residence (like a bomb threat or a murder threat) and they show up without weapons. Shame police time and resources had to be wasted ruining this poor old woman's Minecraft night.
I guess on the up side, not many 82 year olds can tell their friends that they are important enough to have so many people show up to their house so late at night.
EDIT: Early news reports say that police received a call that said her grandshon shot her and was threatening to kill himself. Completely reasonable response to that kind of a threat, if that is what the call was.
Completely reasonable response to that kind of a threat, if that is what the call was.
I think twenty cars is still too many
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Pure evil, a truly irredeemable soul. Hope terrible things happen to the person that called the Gestapo on her.
Your title leaves out the part about her being swatted. Who knows what the scammer told the police.
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Just a few days ago there was a meme of her going around. Guess some asshole saw it.
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