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

Another day

[Anonymous Coward]

Another Known Wolf.

Re:"The victims will see an appropriate punishment

[I'm New Around Here]

All but one of the victims will see an appropriate punishment.

Appropriate punishment

[DontBeAMoran]

The victims will see an appropriate punishment.

So he's going to be locked in a cell and SWAT teams will randomly terrorize him for years, day and night, without warning, at random hours?

Re:Appropriate punishment

[geoskd]

He'll maybe get a stay in a psych ward somewhere, and then be freed when the psychiatrists get bored with him.

That's not the way that process works.

The way it actually works, is the judge finds that a defendant is incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions, and orders that the defendant be held in an institution for such people (This is a process known as being involuntarily committed, and can be undertaken by a judge or a family member). If at such a time in the future, the person in question is planned for release from the facility in question, they are remanded back to the custody of the court, and the original proceedings are continued. This is not a get out of jail free card, unless you mistakenly think that involuntary commitment is anything other than a prison.

Once a person has been committed, even the entity that committed them cannot get them released without the facilities consent or a court order to that effect.

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.