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Jailed Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Sneaks Online, Threatens More 'Swats' (kansas.com)
An anonymous reader quotes the Wichita Eagle:
Tyler Barriss -- the man charged in a swatting hoax that led to the death of an innocent Wichita man -- apparently got access to the internet from jail for at least 28 minutes [last] Friday and threatened to swat again. "How am I on the Internet if I'm in jail? Oh, because I'm an eGod, that's how," a tweet posted at 9:05 a.m. said.
Other developments in the case:
Other developments in the case:
- Another tweet from the Barriss account 19 minutes later asked who was "talking shit," warning "your ass is about to get swatted." And nine minutes later his final tweet from jail bragged, "Y'all should see how much swag I got in here." The county sheriff's office blamed an outside vendor's improper software upgrade to an inmate kiosk, arguing that 14 inmates potentially had full internet access "for less than a few hours."
- 25-year-old Barris is still in jail facing an 11-year prison sentence, noted a Twitter user who responded to the tweets. "This will play well at sentencing when you're pretending to be remorseful and asking the judge for mercy."
- Meanwhile, the Wichita police officer who mistakenly fired the fatal shot that killed a 28-year-old father of two will not face charges. The district attorney concluded that several of the officers closest to victim Andrew Finch thought he reached down to pull up his pants, leaving his right arm hidden from the officers, the Wichita Eagle reports. "The officer who fired the shot, along with some others, thought Finch was reaching for a gun."
- "This shooting should not have happened," said the district attorney. "But this officer's decision was made in the context of the false call." Finch was shot 10 seconds after opening his front door, and his family's civil case against the police department is still going forward.
- Two other gamers involved in the shooting -- including one who allegedly hired Barriss over a $1.50 bet in the game Call of Duty -- have not been charged with a crime.
Enjoy your multiple years in solitary confinement now.
This kid apparently hasn't learned his lesson. Unfortunate, really.
How can Kansas even afford to jail this guy? Last I checked they were running rampant with "john galt" politics barely even able to keep their schools open.
Let me guess, private funding is innovating the "justice system"?
When cops investigate themselves it's always justified.
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My question is how has this person not violated Twitter's TOS and had his account suspended? The fact it wasn't disabled in the first place is as mind-boggling as how he was able to access it from jail. But hopefully this incident will be brought up at his trial so the judge can see how little remorse he has and that any remorsefulness shown in court is just perjury.
His name is Justin Rapp.
Barring some legal entitlement to the internet that I am not aware of, this guy won't be using the internet for a long time.
Oh, if his lawyers were trying to get him bail, their job just got a lot harder.
of the actual shooting, not of cops standing around with their weapons drawn like posted, I'll have to assume the cops are lying.
Because they are saying that with their weapons drawn, they are afraid that someone is fast enough to draw a gun from behind themselves and take them out?
Seriously?
No matter how you slice it, the cops overreacted.
Threatening to swat people on twitter is fine. You better not fucking suggest there are only two genders or you'll really be in trouble.
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"This shooting should not have happened," said the district attorney. "But this officer's decision was made in the context of the false call."
So not prosecuting the officer is probably the right decision, especially since he was (presumably) acting they way the department's training and guidelines suggest he should. But it seems to me that this death, and many others, indicate that those instructions are in serious need of an overhaul. And that in most cases officers need to wait and return fire rather than shoot first and answer any questions later. That puts them at risk, yes, but that's their damn job: to protect the public. And as long as the guy who got swatted didn't offer any violence and until there was crystal clear proof that he was about to get violent, he was not a criminal, not a "perp", but a member of the public. And his life should have come first.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
It's called psychopathy. It's a genetic aberration that unfortunately keeps propagating itself from generation to generation. It's not correlated with intelligence, so there are stupid psychopaths who quickly end-up in jail or dead, and intelligent psychopath who end-up drug-lords, arms-dealers, CEOs, or nations leaders, including president of the United States.
>Barriss
Didn't he bomb the Jedi Temple too?
So SWAT is so trigger happy you can reliably order a murder with a telephone?
But we dump all the blame on him/the previous one/the next one?
And forget that he's there. We'll see how much this little bitch is an "eGod" as he starves to death.
He fucked up the lives of others. He's a waste of life.
You are in a SWAT team. You have been trained for a gunfight. You're there, along with 20 of your buddies, ALL of your weapons drawn and in your hand and pointing to the guy who just walked out of his house and is clueless of WTF is happening. All you need to do is pull a trigger one or more times to take him down. "I thought he was reaching for a gun" is not a good defense. Wait until you actually SEE a fucking gun before you shoot the poor bastard. I can't believe he's not going to face charges for a reckless murder.
Is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you happy to see me?
This guy is some kind of wizard. Jail can't hold him. He'll be out soon enough.
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Is this kid a Trump?
I don't respond to AC's.
And who would the world love then?
Just the arrogance smart people have for authority.
Yet it wasn't the cops next to the guy who made the kill shot, it was one at distance, so this is bullshit on its face. DA's need to be banned from from investigating cops in their own jurisdiction as they work with said cops as part of their day job. The DOJ should go after cops for civil rights violations when local prosecutors drop the ball, like when they sent some of the officers who beat Rodney King to prison.
Every story and every discussion has to be linked to Trump somehow, doesn't it?
Like Godwin's law, there should be some law for this one as well. How many posts before Trump Derangement Syndrome rears it's head? You people really need to seek some mental health professionals regarding your disturbed condition.
He's got a rpi stuck in his rectum and boasts about being egod. He needs help from psychiatrist and a proctologist.
Justice WILL have the last laugh here..Nuf said.
Jack of all trades,master of none
Yep, after telling the world that he was able to access the internet and having that backdoor now plugged and unusable by all the other inmates because he couldnt keep it to himself... Im sure he will be getting all types of swag. The kind that will make him walk/talk funny for days.
I'm hearing the echoes of a ringing triple facepalm all the way over here.
One from the sentencing judge
Two from his lawyer
Three from his future self looking back at ruins of his life
"Depth," genius.
A taser won't reach 20 meters :/
Should be exercising those rights on this officer and the DA who didn't charge him. Oh, right. The majority of them are apologists for these very officers, as long as they aren't liberals.
This is why we have death penalty.. This punk already made continual threats to kill his grandmother, burn her house and kill her dogs, two different bomb threats to a tv station as well as caused the death of one person. Imagine what will happen if he gets out.
He obviously believes the rules of society don't apply to them. Those rules should be harshly applied so he can't kill again.
I know I know you're guilty until proven innocent in the US. But for the rest of us, please write under the assumption it wasn't him who did either the SWATing or the twitting.
I mean, it's not like identity thefts, false confessions and fabricated evidence are anything new to the US injustice system.
So, loads of comments about "how cops are bad", but very little on the responsibility of the root cause that started this chain of events.
A guy deliberately set up an armed response team to an address. From this point, the amount off things that can go badly wrong is staggering, not to mention the cost of performing the action itself in monetary terrms.
In this case, something did go wrong, that would not have happened if the false callout had not been made. Everything stems from that malicious callout, therefore, everything that went wrong should be put on the shoulders of the malicious caller.
The caller should be tried for "attempted murder" if a malicious swatting is made, or at least assault with a deadly weapon (as that's what SWAT teams carry, and it's definitely an assault if done maliciously).
It's very easy to point a finger at a cop and say "Your fault", but unless you do the job, day in, day out, with your life at risk, and nearly every situation you face is life or death, then I take the voices as 'armchair experience'. Yes, training can always be improved, yes, odds can be shrunk, but in situations like this, risk cannot be eliminated. Thus you go for the root cause. Make the malicious caller responsible for all costs, all outcomes, and at least that assault with deadly weapon to boot. Every, single, malicious, call.
Maybe then we'll see swattings "for fun" vanish. As long as people treat it as "just a kicks thing that went wrong", it'll keep on happening, and more deaths will ensue because of it.
hopefully.
I actively encourage Tyler to keep this up. Good for you Tyler? Why? Because it means he'll be far more likely to be convicted, and face the maximum jail sentence. Keep up the stupid Tyler. Go for a record! High score jail time! Try for a double sentence! 20 years! 20 Years! 20 Years!
Highly trained heavily geared up professionals should not have itchy trigger fingers and need to at least get professional consequences!
People make mistakes on the job and big ones result in consequences including being fired. I'm not saying firing is required as an idiotic zero tolerance policy; especially when properly handled that employee may never make that mistake ever again. As a TEAM failure the whole team needs to feel the failure; more training and at least but a dock in PAY should be minimum. If your team fucks up you don't get bonuses or raises and are lucky to not get reassigned or laid off... if not fired if you are the reason the team failed.
When you are nearly invincible against most every likely handheld weapon you can take the TIME to wait for that LARGE heavy 50 caliber to rise into view. It is cowardice or mental illness or a SYSTEM which promotes "extreme" caution with the exact opposite reasoning of innocent until proven guilty. Furthermore, better training so you don't question breaking windows and entering from ALL sides and eyes seeing his hands can communicate to the others. They often just smash in the door; maybe the back door too -- this is life or death stuff, they should break windows and using a drone to peak in windows should be cheap...
Blaming the victim for involuntary ass scratching (cell phone same thing) or pulling up loose clothes or sneezing is so unprofessional an excuse somebody needs to be fired.
Finally, WTF are they using guns? It is a TEAM where the front guys can have beanbag guns and stun guns and heavier armor. the others can have the bazookas. This wasn't a known criminal or bad location... WTF do we have local prosecutors who must work with the police be the ones to look into their buddies? massive conflict of interest!
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DA's don't investigate the cops. DA's decide whether the facts found in the investigation warrant prosecution, or if any trial is liable to fail before it gets started.
In this case, the DA concluded that there would be a trivial defense of 'the cops thought he was reaching for a gun' with no real evidence showing otherwise, and declined to prosecute.
... to a SuperMax facility, that is.
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they are out of their debt, and have no idea of the gravit they are doing
I believe you're out of your depth, buddy./p
By maximizing how many mistakes please get for overzealous reaction, then highlights the likelihood the other Les cut-and-dry cases are also the result of police mismanagement and over sensitivity. How about the police start taking accountability for their actions say we fucked up it's our job to be sure beyond belief before we accidentally make things worse
This really isn't good. The more we see cases like this, the greater the probability that someone, somewhere will start actually hunting down and killing this fuckers posing as "police".
This is why "everyone is equal in they eyes of the law" is so fucking important. If law-enforcement is not able to police it self, it loses credibility and becomes a force operating above and outside the law. And if the courts does not give the victims justice, someone will find a way to extract extra-judicial punishment on cold blooded killers and their protectors like this one, and the ones posing as the DA and their colleagues. They really should know better than making targets of themselves.
With great power comes great responsibilities, indeed. Power without accountability is just tyranny. And that never ends well.
Rubber bullets.
You're reinforcing my point here.
Because of the incestious relationship between DA's and the cops they work with, just like I said. There was no, none, nada, zip sign this man was reaching for any weapon.
Ignorant fuck initiates swatting and gets person killed.
Ignorant fuck gets caught and thrown in the pokie awaiting trial.
Ignorant fuck gains illicit internet access and threatens to do again exactly what he's about to be tried for.
Prosecutor rejoices.
Judge shows no mercy at ignorant fuck's sentencing. Hahahahahahahaha
Society has one less ignorant fuck to worry about.
The system works!
It's not about stopping the bullets. It's about hiding so the bad guys don't see where you are.
because it's already established. There's nothing to debate there. This guy goes to jail for a long time and isn't let near the internet or any other anonymous communications when he gets out. Problem solved.
We're still debating the cop's situation becuase he got off scott free when he obviously shouldn't have. At the least he should be fired and never allowed to work as a cop again. As it stands our "Tough on Crime" outlook and unwillingness to address gun violence has left cops above the law in most shootings.
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Yeah, sure, the fucking SWAT team, heavily armed and ready, a good distance away from the home. Guy comes out. Not even enough time to identify who he is, but the should-have-never-been-trusted-with-a-gun cop kills him because he was scared. Give us all a fucking break.
Failure to bring charges reinforces the notion to cops all over the USA it's acceptable to use your weapon in a deadly manner. As long as "you were scared and perceived a threat, even an imaginary one, it's justified."
If Clinton had won the election, you would be one of those who would make every story and discussion on Slashdot about Clinton.
So shut the fuck up, hypocritical trumptard.
Botched software patch.
If I were the prosecutor in Sedgewick County, I'd be looking very closely at who did the patch installation and who is in charge of managing these kiosks. Could be some of Bariss' gamer buddies.
Drugs and other contraband frequently make it inside prisons by way of corrupt guards and other officials.
Have gnu, will travel.
What a swat twat.
Parent should have been marked funny for no other reason than thinking that "slut" was a viable insult for a woman whose idea of doing something illicit was famously, on the record, as running through a field of wheat. Seriously, put some effort into it. Of course, poisoners have always been considered the biggest cowards.
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deadly force wouldn't be needed at that distance against a person using a knife as a weapon
At least that'll get him away from any other inmates who might be really pissed that he ruined their unrestricted internet loophole by bragging about it to the world.
What kind of idiot, SITTING IN PRISON for SWAT'ing, sneaks online and self-incriminates by promising MORE?
His parents couldn't have dropped him on his head as a baby.
They must have been spiking his stupid ass like a football!
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Hi Tyler. Hope you're having a great time in prison. Tell Bubba we send our love.
Perhaps you need to recall what Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt means?
Reasonable doubt does not mean "guilty".
It means the DA didn't waste time trying to prosecute a case he had no hope of winning. His job isn't to please you--it's to obtain convictions.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
That's pretty slick, posting to /. while giving Uncle Vlad head... I should get my wife an account and let her try that on me.
Look at how huge my butthole is now
Next time someone gets shot on the street by some random guy, the DA shouldn't bother prosecuting them either. Too easy for the guy to say "I thought he went for a weapon, so I pulled out my 45 and blew him away". "Yeehaw!!!"
The DA is a chicken shit asshole and just as guilty of encouraging this sort of bullshit gestapo behaviour as the guy that pulled the trigger. The civil suits should treble the damages just for that alone, and some of that payment should come directly from the DA, policy setters, and trigger man's pocket.
Fuck these police state apologists with a sandpaper covered condom.
But this *wasn't* some random guy. It was a guy who was there and who was armed for the express purpose of dealing with a violent situation in which at least one of multiple hostages had already been gravely wounded or killed.
Context matters, and you cannot condemn someone for not having perfect knowledge, particularly in a scenario such as this one.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
If it is reasonable to believe that a person moving their hands towards their body is reaching for a gun, then there are too many guns. Time to round them up and ban them.
Same defence applies to any random murderer. "I thought that guy was on America's most wanted and was about to pull a gun on me."
The 'self defence' defence is weighed along with other evidence to determine reasonable doubt. In this case, it was absolutely clearly NOT self defence. There is ZERO supporting evidence to bolster that claim. All the evidence points to: "the cop shot the guy". He must now mount a defence showing extenuating circumstances. "I thought the guy was packing heat and was about to draw" doesn't cut it, when the guy clearly wasn't armed in any way at all.
This is a cop who got some bad info and started shooting at a guy that was clearly not acting violent after they just busted into his house on an 'anonymous' tipoff, because there was no attempt to verify the veracity of the information. The cop was a coward that shat his pants and popped off a cap at the slightest movement of a guy who for all they know was the hostage being sent to the door with the kidnapper elsewhere.
No matter how you cut this, the cops action were reckless and not only endangered the public safety, but ended up killing a member of the public.
If the cops were doing their jobs properly and got prosecuted and sent to jail for this bullshit, the concept of SWATting would vanish over night.
Welcome to the 3rd world
Can we PLEASE just put the little shit against the wall and shoot him already?
Seems we may have a psychopath. With any luck the judge sends him to a looney bin for a long time. They can keep him locked up a lot longer in a psyc ward.
This guys is on-par with Manson and Dahmer as a sociopath.
Perhaps you could read the definitions for non sequitur and red herring. No one said the DA is judge, jury and executioner, or whatever stupid thought was going through your head.
You sound like the Obamabots whining the reason their guy didn't prosecute a single banker because the DOJ couldn't win any of the cases - when the feds have a conviction rate over 90%.
A murdering pig shot a man for no reason two seconds after he stepped out his front door. Manslaughter, straight up.
And for all the cop knew the man walking out the front door was a hostage.
Straw man. Cops get fake or misleading calls all. the. time. but can't go in shooting everyone on sight. So why all the desperate defenses of the indefensible here? You got family in the gestapo, or are you one of those kind of teabaggers?