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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by detaro on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:06AM (#27903636)
The entire point here is that almost none of those generic (but very real!) issues really apply in this specific case for once (especially given the call number2 applies a bit, as I already said). "Police responding to a call about a shooter are armed, actually encounter someone with a gun, point guns and tell them to drop it, gun gets dropped, nobody gets shot" sounds like something that could happen in many places and is not a useful example for cops being way to fast to shoot people.
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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by coldtea on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @07:52AM (#27905056)
>The entire point here is that almost none of those generic (but very real!) issues really apply in this specific case

Yes, but we already covered that - that it's not specifically about this case.

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Re:Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over ... by thomastjeffery on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @02:21PM (#27910024)
Even specific to this case, the reality of surrounding circumstances and events is significant.

We very recently had country-wide protests on the topic of police brutality with very minimal consequnce.

Those surrounding circumstances almost certainly informed this man's decision to own a firearm and his decision to brandish that firearm while figuring out what was happening on his property.

The assumption here is that the stress of the situation was the cause of his heart attack, and ultimately his death.

What ever happened to giving someone a phone call to assess the situation?

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