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

Yet more rehashing of bullshit

[civilwaradvocate]

Trying to blame one kid for the intentionally hyper-violent law enforcement doctrine that pervades the country.

Police are trained to be unjustly violent and blindly authoritarian.
In other words, our police are almost completely militarized, from their training to their equipment.

At any time you could become an "enemy combatant" in your own home, whether it be because of a systemic failure as in this case, or because of systemic manipulation. The chilling examples of the secret polices of inter- and post-war Europe come to mind.
If you don't want a police state, you're going to have to figure out how to network with the people around you to make your voices heard.

Re:Punish

[LWATCDR]

They both have. The officer that made an error in a tense situation has lost his job. The swatter is I hope going to jail for a very long time.
What I can not understand is how so many people are so anti-police. The officer was told that this was a hostage situation and that the caller had already killed his father. They where also told that hostages where all female. A guy walks out and then reaches for the waistband of his pants. The officer thought he was going for a gun and shot. Everyone seems to want a physic perfect police force where they know that the call is fake and can react without any fear or error.
The swatter did it for money and the LOL and then bragged about it on a youtube channel.
Let me help you out here. There is this thing called intent and it does matter.