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Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man (arstechnica.com)
Federal prosecutors in Kansas announced Tuesday that a 25-year-old Californian has admitted that he caused a Wichita man to be killed at the hands of local police during a swatting attack late last year. Ars Technica reports: According to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas, Tyler Barriss pleaded guilty to making a false report resulting in a death, cyberstalking, and conspiracy. He also admitted that he was part of "dozens of similar crimes in which no one was injured." In May 2018, Barriss was indicted on county charges (manslaughter) and federal charges, which include cyberstalking and wire fraud, among many others. U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a Tuesday statement that Barriss would be sentenced to at least 20 years in prison. Barriss also was involved in calling in a bomb threat to the Federal Communications Commission in December 2017 to disrupt a vote on net neutrality rules. The 25-year-old Californian is scheduled to be sentenced on January 30, 2019, in federal court in Wichita.
wait, so the cops have no brains, they can't assess a situation and all it takes is one freaking call and they will come and shoot the guy?
How in the world is it NOT their fault?
So the problem is the idiot who called the "death squad"? Not the actual people who went in shooting with out asking questions first?
It can be more than one person's fault.
Not quite able to put my finger on it, but something tells me you're not American.
I can put my finger on it. It's the idea that one event can have more than one cause. Americans are generally unable to grasp that concept.
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"The guy who took the shot also has some implication, and a mitigating circumstance. There should be a criminal investigation into him and maybe he gets off on the circumstance. But even if innocent he absolutely should not be allowed to have a job where he points guns at people anymore without a truly extraordinary reason, since he's proven to be incapable of doing it without accidentally killing innocents."
Did you see the video? The cop did his job. The guy at the door, on camera, LOOKED like he was pointing something (possibly a gun) after being instructed to walk forward towards an obvious police presence.
Did you listen to the asshole's 911 call pretending to be in the house holding his family hostage and getting ready to kill them? After killing his Dad? That's the information the police had. No question it was a horrific tragedy, but the cops are no more responsible than a bus driver who hits and kills a pedestrian who was pushed out on the road by some OTHER asshole who thought it would be FUNNY.
This really is ALL on the asshole.