Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Is Now Also Wanted in Florida (kansas.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Florida police recount how close they were to aresting 25-year-old Tyler Barriss before his fake call to Kansas police led to a fatal shooting. "Panama City Beach police Lt. J.R. Talamantez told the Panama City News Herald that police had tied Barriss to about 30 other bomb threats," reports the Wichita Eagle -- a full month before another call led to the fatal shooting of a father of two in Kansas. But attempts to secure an arrest warrant may have been slowed by the lack of an address, since apparently Barriss "lived in a shelter in South Los Angeles. Police there found him in a local library."

A Florida newspaper reports that their local police department is now doing what they can to right the situation. "Lt. J.R. Talamantez, cyber crimes investigator with the Panama City Beach police, said the department currently has two felony warrants issued for Barris' arrest and is providing the U.S. Attorney's Office with information... Talamantez said the end goal is to identify all victims of Barriss' calls and bring him to justice on all those incidents... "We just want to send a message that this isn't going to end with a slap on the wrist. The victims will see an appropriate punishment."

Comments

Re:Yet more rehashing of bullshit

[Anonymous Coward]

oh, shut the fuck up. next time there's someone dealing drugs outside your house, what are you going to do about it? cry? no, you call the police. if someone calls in a bomb threat at a school, or if there's someone with a gun at the mall shooting, is nobody supposed to show up? get fucking real. this kid was abusing a means of calling for armed emergency last-line support. he was doing it knowingly to hurt and harass other people. he knew he was doing this and wasting tens of thousands of dollars of public funds. he should be hung or shot as an example that that's not tolerated. you can't allow people to do that kind of abuse to public systems without repercussions, or everyone who wants to will do the same.

like honestly, are you stupid, or 10? don't be stupid. letting him get away with it is no different than letting the country decay into lawlessness.

hey, one question for americunts

[Anonymous Coward]

how come when theres a shooting in one of your fucking schools the police never get in but when people are sleeping at home the swat team breaches thru the door like you were just watching some anime lolicon with extra patting on the head?

i mean, really

Prison rape, but yes

[rsilvergun]

and personally I think it's a little screwed up that we use the prisoners themselves to inflict the cruel and unusual punishment that we don't have the stomach to do ourselves. Then again I'm not in favor of punishment based prison. Either rehabilitate him or keep him locked up for life if we think he'll be a danger to the community. But I'd like us to be good enough people that we don't have to resort to round about torture.

Either that or go all in and use pain ray on them 24/7 until their heart fails. At least then we'd be admitting we want to cause pain and suffering.

Re:Punish

[q_e_t]

"I'm locked in the bathroom. My husband is battering tn the door, saying he will kill me".

"Madam, can you quote your driving license number?"

"No, it's in the living room, in my purse"

"Sorry, Madam, we can't help you. Goodbye"

Re:Punish

[Anonymous Coward]

'Anti-police' and 'police should do better' are not the same thing. Quit conflating them.

We really need to get rid of the whole 'reaching for their waistband' as an automatic excuse for the police to open fire. Too many actions can be interpreted / distorted as reaching for a waistband. Firing at the first motion seems to be based on the assumption that the person doing the reaching is some sort of movie-level quick draw artist - able to pull a gun out of their pants, aim and fire so fast that a police officer can't wait to at least see something that looks like a weapon. It's bollocks.

Re:Punish

[Anonymous Coward]

Could you pour it on a little thicker? "Might be a kid?" Come on, go all the way - it might be a button that'll start a thermonuclear war! Better shoot now, just in case.

The police in this situation were in a distant, protected location - there was no reason to react in a panic, and they didn't have enough information to choose deadly force. But one of them, theoretically a trained individual who should have been prepared for this situation, opened fire when he should not have.

I bet you've got excuses for the cops in the Arizona shooting too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Re:Punish

[Maritz]

Everyone is assumed to be a threat until proven otherwise or rendered ineffective.

Oh boy. Quoted for understatement. Yeah. Shoot shoot shoot.

I say, walk a mile in the cops shoes before you start casting judgement.

The cowardly cunt shot an unarmed man who had his hands up. Cops like him are cowardly, spineless fucks, and you've got waaaaaay too many just like him.