Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle

Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by bpodgursky on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:11PM (#27901579)

I would be pretty shocked if SWATting was any appreciable % of police responses. You can't delay response times by 50% to handle the .01% of cases which are falsely initiated.

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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by himinlomax on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @03:23AM (#27903324)

We're not asking police to delay response, we're asking them to delay shooting people.

But when all you have is a hammer, every citizen looks like a nail.

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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by BenjiWiebe on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:33PM (#27910177)

Actually, in this case, the police didn't shoot. The guy died anyway.

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