A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid

Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by pjc50 on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:00PM (#12559276)

"If police raided a home based only on an anonymous phone call claiming residents broke the law, it would be clearly unconstitutional"

I thought that was how SWATting worked - anonymous denunciation by untraceable phone call?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by astazangasta on Thursday September 22, 2016 @08:02PM (#12561367)

Yeah, is this just an urban legend? Fake videos, etc.? It's always seemed absurd to me that you can send men with guns to raid someone's house just with an anonymous phone call.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by dottrap on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:10AM (#12562646)

Nope, not an urban legend. This is really happening.

Just last week a home with 5 children was wrongly raided: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/14/swat-officers-raid-home...

Wrong house with Grandmother and Teen girl raided with flash-bang: http://reason.com/blog/2015/08/03/swat-team-liable-for-wrong...

This gamer was "Swatted" and the web cam caught it: http://reason.com/blog/2014/08/28/militarization-of-police-h...

This 1-year old baby was critically burned by a flash-bang grenade thrown into the playpen: http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/07/us/georgia-toddler-stun-grenad...

[ Parent | on HN ]