Posted on 12/10/2024 3:10:58 AM PST by CFW
On Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was again the victim of a swatting call at her north Georgia home. This call, however, had a lethal difference: an officer was killed in rushing to the scene to join the bomb squad. The incident will trigger a new Georgia law on swatting and raise questions over legal responsibility for such lethal consequences from such crimes.
Greene has been a victim of swatting at least nine times. On this occasion, the caller made a bomb threat.
The police department received the threat entitled “For Palestine” and ended with “VIVA, VIVA PALESTINA.”
The police department reported that:
“On Monday December 9, a Rome Police Department officer was traveling in a personal vehicle en route to take his place with the Bomb Squad on a call. This officer was involved in a traffic accident on Redmond Rd near Walmart, which has created significant travel delays around the Norfolk Southern Railroad Tracks.”
(Excerpt) Read more at jonathanturley.org ...
Swatting should result in a 20yr to life-time prison sentence depending on the level of chaos caused by the call or text.
WHY oh why did it take so long?
Senior Editor Joe Patrice (who has defended “predominantly liberal faculties” and not hiring conservative or libertarian law professors) insisted that swatting is somehow the fault of gun owners, Second Amendment advocates, and “edgy” police:
“Swatting is a byproduct of a nation awash in more and more powerful weapons and more and more edgy cops. And that makes these false police reports regrettably a manifestation of our age of failing to confront the disconnect between the text and history of the Second Amendment and the lazy ahistorical interpretation of this Supreme Court.”
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That's some convoluted thinking right there.
Because look at who was being swatted..
Liberals
No…wait
Local news says officer injured, civilian woman killed
[The FBI could solve these cases if they wished to do so.]
ALL swatters should be arrested, tried and sentenced for felony attempted murder. (or in this case, a felony that results in death)
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
“Local news says officer injured, civilian woman killed”.
That’s what I had heard originally as well. I just assumed Turley had more up-to-date information. I should have known better and checked.
It never should have been a misdemeanor in the first place..
That makes it even worse.
How about all swatters should be swatted and killed during arrest.
May as well turn the table.
I’d have no problem with that - they initiated the game
Yep.
The FBI could probably nail these perps - if they weren’t so busy chasing down grandmothers for 4 year old misdemeanors that were supposedly committed during the FBI-orchestrated J6 fiasco...Hell - it might be FBI agents making the calls....
The only reason Swatting happens is the fact that the militarized cops over react. Most seem to be a bunch of idiots. I know it is an impossible job but they bring it upon themselves.
BTTT
i ask...
if the 3 letters can track a j6 memaw by her phone
and throw her into the DC gulag
why aren't these cell phone swatters EVER arrested ?
is it cuz
they ARE 3 letter employees ?.
Using the term “swatting” is a bit dubious in this case. It was a false bomb threat.
EC
I always hear about swatting incidents.
I NEVER hear about a swatter being caught and sent to jail - that’s where we need to be.
Of course. Look how efficiently the January 6 Protesters were identified and incarcerated.
WHY oh why did it take so long?“
Yeah I guess it takes a dead cop to get anything done about this.
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