17-year-old alleged ‘serial swatter’ charged after police say he made threats throughout the country | CNN
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A teenager “serial swatter” from California is believed to be responsible for hundreds of swatting incidents and bomb threats throughout the US according to a pretrial detention motion. Now he has been extradited to Florida to face charges for a swatting incident at a mosque, according to the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office.
    • @GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      0•5 months ago

      A swat team is a specially trained unit.

      An uparmored tactical larp response.from.many officers is not that.

    • @LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
      -10•5 months ago

      Your comment doesn’t really answer my question. Do they actually send a SWAT team?

      I don’t really care about how they are armed. Is it called swatting because a SWAT team is deployed, or is it because that happened once or sometimes but it’s not always the case?

        • @LilB0kChoy@midwest.social
          -4•5 months ago

          What point? I’m honestly trying to find out if it’s only considered swatting if an actual SWAT team is deployed or if that’s become the generic term.

          There’s a term for this, called genericide. Like how Kleenex is used for all facial tissues or Qtips is used for all cotton swabs.

          If all you want to do is find reasons to get offended and be combatant take your bullshit somewhere else.

          I’m so sick of people like you on Lenny eroding actual conversation so you can mud sling and interpret everything in the worst possible light.

          Sometimes a question is just a fucking question jackass!

          Blocked for being the waste of space you are.

          • @nutsack@lemmy.world
            2•5 months ago

            okay to answer your question it doesn’t matter if it’s swat or not

            Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person’s address. [wikipedia]