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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by jMyles on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:25PM (#17149036)
Somebody murdered somebody else in cold blood, at the home of the latter.

The fact that the former had an anonymous, unauthenticated report is not rightly even a part of this.

This is insane.

Yes, it sucks for the officer, because he was improperly trained to give a great deal more credence to the 911 report, which in retrospect, was downright trivial to fill with false information.

I don't think that the officer is 100% culpable, even though his person was enlisted to commit this murder.

This is an obvious, huge vulnerability in society. Do we have a CVE for this?

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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by echotango on Thursday May 24, 2018 @06:48PM (#17149203)
This is the only comment that gets at the heart of the matter. I would add that culpability is not zero sum. The shooter was 100% responsible, and the others were also partially responsible.
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