Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by tptacek on Friday December 29, 2017 @06:04PM (#16032636)

I don't give them the benefit of the doubt and do have a problem with how ineffectively they're prosecuted for their conduct. But it's worth bearing in mind that in these SWAT-ing scenarios, they're deliberately put into the one uncommon circumstance that drives practically all of the rest of their abuse. It's a singularly evil thing to do.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by smokeyj on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:06AM (#16033936)

We’re going to hold strangers on Xbox live to a higher degree of accountability than highly trained officers. Sadly this makes perfect sense. These officers are the equivalent of trained killer dogs and this is what we should expect.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by tptacek on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:41AM (#16034021)

We're going to hold strangers who use their Xboxes as an excuse to attempt to kill people accountable, independent of anything else we do. Respectfully: this is pretty simple grown-up logic.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by smokeyj on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:10AM (#16034242)

I can pick up the phone and have the police kill you, and you don’t think that’s a problem? Explain that logic.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by lmm on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:59PM (#16036384)

Trying to kill someone because they beat you in a game is significantly more evil than trying to kill someone because you mistakenly believed they posed a threat to human life.

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