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Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents (nbcnews.com)
An anonymous reader quotes NBC News:
The California man behind a years-long string of hoax 911 calls -- including one that ended in a Kansas man's death -- wants to plead guilty to all charges, court documents revealed. Tyler Rai Barriss, 25, intends to waive his right to trial and admit guilt to a 46-count federal indictment, according to a document he signed on Oct. 18 and was filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday. Barriss faces up to life behind bars for his dozens of acts of "swatting" -- calling police to falsely report a serious crime, in hopes of drawing a massive response to the home of an unsuspecting target.... According to the court records, Barriss will admit to dozens of "swatting" incidents all over America between 2015 and the end of 2017, The false alarms connected to Barriss happened in Ohio, Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Massachusetts, MIssouri, Maine, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Indiana, Michigan, Florida, Connecticut and New York.
Barriss performed SWATs if clients sent him $10 over PayPal -- occasionally demanding "upwards of $50," according to a new (possibly pay-walled) article on Wired. A Call of Duty player hired Barriss to SWAT a teammate who'd caused them to lose a $1.50 wager, but his intended target supplied a false address across town which resulted in the fatal police shooting.
Both gamers are now "awaiting trial on lesser charges," reports NBC.
Barriss performed SWATs if clients sent him $10 over PayPal -- occasionally demanding "upwards of $50," according to a new (possibly pay-walled) article on Wired. A Call of Duty player hired Barriss to SWAT a teammate who'd caused them to lose a $1.50 wager, but his intended target supplied a false address across town which resulted in the fatal police shooting.
Both gamers are now "awaiting trial on lesser charges," reports NBC.
you have to be plenty heartless do something like this without any remorse
Now arrest the fuckers who procured his services.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
...and as usual, no culpability is foisted upon the fuctionally-warrantless police state for their actions...
Every time the police just shrugs and gets off free.
"We didn't do anything. Someone said there was a situation at this address, so we just bust the door down and shot whoever was inside. It's not our fault"
And the worst part is that you Americans just accept that this is the way it is and has to be. You just yell at the guy who made the phone call, but have nothing to say about the vaccuum-headed police and their inability to investigate or even think before firing their weapons.
Now fix the on-call violence delivery service. At least add:
- accountability for police
- mandatory fact-finding before believing whatever story a caller wants to tell
- body cameras with recordings available to the public (maybe with some controls if you're scared of the public having access to the information for whatever reason)
- specific trading requirements for SWAT teams, with presumed liability for failure to train
- a duty for the police to make a genuine attempt protect the life and dignity of everyone they encounter
Swatting is just one of the reasons why associating any online accounts you have with your real identity is a terrible idea. This happened because a guy lost a counterstrike match. Another teammate was mad at him, they got in an argument, the guy tried to dox him though his steam profile linked to a facebook page, and ended up getting a completely random person killed as a result. You put your real info on those social media pages, and that's the police kicking down your door and you getting killed. People ask "what do you have to hide". Apparently it's a bunch of jackbooted thugs kicking down your door at 11:30pm because some pathetic waste of flesh on the internet who was mad over losing a $1.50 bet decided to pay someone to anonymously call in a hostage situation.
no knock still exists
Have you considered just not having a militarized police force?
No of course not, because you're amerimutts and therefore "exceptional". The solutions discovered anywhere else in the world don't apply to exceptional america.
Given long enough, a fake nation full of reject religious nuts will eventually fully reinvent civilization. But it will take hundreds of years at least.
When the founders established our government and constitution they acknowledged that laws and rights do not of themselves make a good society. The statutes are only effective if the basic underpinning of the citizenry is reasonably moral. Good laws form a symbiotic relationship with the citizenry. If the citizens are amoral, no law or constitution will fix it.
What exactly do you think the purpose of the police is? It's not what you think. ... which includes YOU. You are property. You belong to the 1%, but that requires force / the threat of violence.
They're not there to protect YOUR worthless life and YOUR worthless stuff, they exist to protect the property of the 1%
The fact that you love the police makes you a cock sucking, cuck faggot. You love the prison guards in this open prison society we all live in.
Tyler Rai Barriss, 25, intends to waive his right to trial and admit guilt to a 46-count federal indictment, ...
Forty-six counts? Apparently, this guy *really* misunderstood the slogan, "You're either SWAT or you're not."
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
This is all on the prank caller....
The cops didn't have to shoot an unarmed man from across the street as soon as he opened the door. There is no excuse for that kind of incompetence and stupidity. Their lives were never in danger. They didn't size up the scene properly. And they didn't verify their target - it could have easily been a hostage.
It's all on the cops.
over an $1.50 bet some payed $10 to get back?
Maybe over an $100 bet but $1.50???
I remember a time when a gamer saved the life of an elderly gamer by calling an ambulance when he became delirious.
That might have been in the first year of World of Warcraft. Maybe Dark Age of Camelot. It's been a long time.
Gamer culture sure has changed,
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
This kind of shit isn't, and never, EVER should be acceptable.
This kind of thing needs to be treated with a heavy hand.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
I see a lot of anger in the comments so far directed towards the police, not just the officers in this swat incident but generally. Well, think of this the next time there's another call to hand over all our guns to the government because, "you can just call the police". Well, someone did call the police and, if the comments here are to be believed, the police are incompetent, bloodthirsty, both, or worse.
Is it too much to ask for both that we don't rely on the police for everything and when they do come that they are competent, intelligent, and well trained? Remember that the police come from the public. If the police officers never saw a gun until they arrive at the academy then they are going to be poorly trained on the proper use of a firearm. We cannot put the gun genie back in the bottle. Guns exist and the world is better for it.
Let's not forget that, again according to comments here, there is an orangutan in the Oval Office tossing feces all over Twitter. You want him to have all the guns? Remember folks, don't create a government that you are not willing to give to your opposition because your friends might not always be in charge.
Now, return to your cop bashing.
I am armed because I am free. I am free because I am armed.
Actually no, there are active shooters where multiple people get killed all the time. You're a lying faggot Kohath, not a cop, not a SEAL, not SWAT, not a cowboy. You're a moronic coward who thinks he knows better than everyone else.
Seriously I hope you get involved in your first shooting soon so you have the beginning of the start of an understanding of what this is like. You have zero concept, you're a blathering moron.
You're a moron Kohath. You have zero experience with this you gum flapping idiot.
Kohath you are a moron, not a cop. Not even a dogcatcher. Stop pretending you know anything about this you cowardly advice-faggot lol.
You're a moron Kohath. You have zero experience with this you gum flapping idiot.
P.S. I put swat in quotes because the games isn't sending a swat, the police are.
How come the "swatter" isn't charged only for filing a false report?
The police shouldn't just take any report, anon or not, and assume it is real.
The police shouldn't SWAT unless it is needed.
Using the lives are at stake answer doesn't help because the police don't know that, they assume that.
The weird part is that the gamers can ruin 2 lives, the person killed by the police and the cop who killed him - through remorse.
He may not even be caught.
Why don't you guys have friends or journals?
You know posting baseless personal attacks under every well-reasoned argument doesn't exactly help sway people to your side, right?
Goddamn trigger happy pig killed an innocent man from 60 yards.
That cop needs to be behind bars.
We can find this guy, but they can't find and stop scam artists in India using the same tech?
I don't really have anything to say beyond the subject line.
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The ability to inflict pain and suffering on others (and sometimes taking pleasure in it) without feeling any regret or remorse is the textbook definition of psychopathy.
About one in every hundred people is a psychopath. Most research in this field seems to agree that psychopathy is a genetic trait. It is not correlated with intelligence, so you have very stupid psychopaths who usually dig their own graves (like the idiot in the article), and very intelligent, clever, manipulative psychopaths that sometimes end up as head-of-states, at the head of very powerfull corporations, or at the head of powerfull crime syndicates.
Unfortunately, history is full of the most unspeakably evil psychopaths being cheered and worshiped by hords of blind followers. Because, it seems like stupidity is also a human genetic trait, and much more common that psychopathy.
Which in this case beyond a shadow of a doubt are the COPS. They had a dozen guys in full Judge Dredd body armor, AND they were hiding behind their cop cars AND they had MULTIPLE NON LETHAL options from CS to taser to bean bag rounds, against a single dude in a pair of shorts...and they just unloaded on him.
I'm sorry but it was a straight up execution, pure and simple. They CHOSE to go straight to lethal without even the slightest attempt at hostage negotiation (remember their big excuse is there were supposed to be hostages...so where was the standard hostage negotiation?) or using any of the multiple non lethal options that could have TRIVIALLY ended the situation with zero loss of life.....I'm sorry but they weren't a SWAT team, they were a hit squad.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
His pleading out means he was the first to turn. The other two will now have the full weight of law thrown at them and he will get a reduced sentence. Unfortunately that is the state of criminal justice in the USA. The person who is most responsible will get a better deal then the other two morons in the story, one of whom was the intended victim.
You know, I really hate it when someone throws off lines like, "I love and respect the police", as though valid criticism and public accountability means those asking for it, don't love and respect the police. Actually just respect will do nicely.
The problem here is the police training and Use of Force/Escalation rules that police use. Police jumping immediately to 11 on the violence scale is an issue and you can deny it all you want. We arm police and give them the authority to use lethal force, it's not too much to ask that they use those powers sparingly.
"There wasn't *time* to think." Really? There wasn't time? The police, who come to a citizen's home, are in control of the timing. They can set up defensive perimeters. They can wear body armor. They can have backup. This whole, "there's no time!" idea is bogus and wrong, even on a 9-11 call. It gets trotted out every time and it's lazy. We aren't asking police to write an report before responding to a call, we are just asking them to keep their fingers off the trigger.
You lack empathy and understanding for the gentleman who got shot. Now imagine it's you, possibly woken from a deep sleep, you have no idea why police would even be at your door. You have no context, no preparation, nothing, you aren't even dressed properly. Suddenly people are yelling something semi-intelligible, but the problem is the people yelling are just as likely criminals as police, and besides you aren't exactly thinking straight.
Would you put your hands on your head instantly, or would you scratch yourself as you try to gather your thoughts and figure out What In Hell Is Going On?