Posted on 06/08/2018 2:55:20 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Deputies recently swarmed a suburban Delray Beach neighborhood, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office put its chopper in the air and called out its SWAT team. Then they learned they were responding to a fake 911 call.
It's called "swatting" and it happened Wednesday.
The 911 caller said there was a stabbing and a hostage situation. It turns out the day before the Broward County Sheriff's Office received a similar call and now the two incidents may be connected.
"We had to deploy a lot of resources down there including putting a SWAT team in that direction. Turned out, it was a fake call," said Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw.
Sheriff Bradshaw said there's no way to tell if it's real or fake when you get the call, you move and get in place.
"This is not an unusual phenomenon, it's called 'swatting.' We've had them before, we don't get a terrible amount of them, but it does create a lot of usage of resources," said the sheriff.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office faced a similar fake call on Tuesday morning. The target of the 'swatting' call was Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School's student activist David Hogg's home. Then, on Wednesday the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office got a fake 911 call to another activist's home in suburban Delray Beach.
"I don't think it was a coincidence. I think it was somebody who for whatever reason feels threatened by the activity and political action of the students," said Jeffrey Kasky, whose home was the target of the swatting call Wednesday.
Kasky said his som Cameron works with David Hogg to get young people to register to vote. He and his son were on a plane at the time of the SWAT call, but there were people home.
"It's a little bit shocking, but they're OK," added Kasky.
Sheriff Bradshaw said his department takes these incidents very seriously. "If we find out who calls those in, we're going to arrest them for making a false report of a crime number one and number two, if it happens to be a juvenile then we're going to start seeking to get back what the expenditure was for those resources from the parents of the juvenile which could be in excess of $100,000 thousand."
The person who makes the swatting call could also be liable if someone gets hurt during the response.
"Because we take these seriously and because the person purported to be armed could get hurt; cause we're going to deploy our resources like this is the real thing, like somebody in there has a firearm," said the sheriff.
Another thing strange is how does Cameron Kasky, whose home is in Delray Beach which is Palm Beach country, get to go to high school in Parkland, FL which is in Broward County. Separate school system.
Whoever did this I hope they get arrested.
And when they do I’ll be donating to their defense fund.
Eat, drink and be a fairy.
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The other thing I find to be truely BIZARRE is I just checked the Twitter feed of Cameron Kasky and absolutely NO REACTION from him about the Swatting. He posted about a bunch of other stuff but about the swatting... NOTHING.
Hogg will screw-up sometime outside of Broward County.
This qualification bothers me. I have to think that an adult would *not* be subject to the clawback, otherwise why does he say "if it's a juvenile"?
It’s Kasky who lives in Palm Beach County so how is he able to go to school in Parkland which is Broward County. Separate school system.
Probably a false flag report. Lefties are known for those.
I think Piggy did it. Losing his MSM attention. Has to play the sympathy card.
LOL @ image
I like “false flag”, but the radio silence on Kasky’s twitter is a puzzler. Publicizing victim status and the harrumphing over “right wing violence” is always Job One.
Maybe he just wanted to go to the school-——and pays tuition to do so.
I’ve heard of that being done.
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The liberal law enforcement in south Florida cares more about these illegal calls than they did about MULTIPLE RED FLAGS killer Nikolas Cruz.
I agree with prosecuting the hoax perp or perps, don’t get me wrong. My issue is with the contrast.
All I know is if I were ever Swatted I would be full out angry with my mind focused on finding the perp. But from those two guys....they act like it is no big deal. Strange.
Kasky and Hogg..otherwise known as the Co Conspirators, would NOT be surprised if they are the ones that made the call..their 15 minutes of fame ended a long time ago, they want some of it back
What if it turns out to be Hogg or one of his friends?
“What if it turns out to be Hogg or one of his friends?”
I am very comfortable in the assumption that these pathetic little weasels lack both the skills and fortitude to carry out such a scheme.
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