Especially when you are trained in nail identification...
Posted on 12/30/2017 6:44:28 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
Los Angeles police have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of making the swatting call that ended with a Wichita man being killed by police.
Tyler Barriss was arrested Friday afternoon, according to KABC.
Booking records for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office say he was arrested at 3:15 p.m. for a felony.
Barriss is accused of reporting a fake homicide and hostage situation to the Wichita Police Department just after 6:15 p.m. Thursday.
The practice is called "swatting" and happens when someone makes a call to a police department with a false story of an ongoing crime – often with killing or hostages involved – in an attempt to draw a large number of police officers to a particular address.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
I though Kansas used a firing squad. Much more appropriate in this case...
My point was that THAT scenario does and has happened. In that particular instance, no.
"...any excuse for a righteous shoot..."
It is possible to “spoof” the caller id so that the number that shows up is not the real number
Ding dongs called a local substation non emergency number and got transferred to dispatch per an earlier article
It worked in the murder of Lavoy Finnicum. It will work here.
If he did it, he needs to be tried for murder.
But where the phone is, still means something — isn’t triangulation of cellphone location from towers SOP for emergency calls? With both number and geography showing at the receiving office? Wouldn’t there be a question like “How do you, in California, know there’s trouble going down in Wichita?”
He had better be convicted of a serious crime and have a severe penalty.
JoMa
In Kansas you can be armed, almost everywhere. Inside or on your property is covered under the Castle doctrine. We have constitutional carry so you can carry anywhere it is not specifically forbidden, open or concealed, with out special permits or any other BS from border to border. The 2nd Amendment covers it.
But no one in the house owns any guns so he didnt have one on, and got shot for answering the front door because the cops knocked on it anyway.
At best this kind of transfer, without emergency realtime trackability, is an open door to such spoofs. If it has transferability to an emergency station — it should have trackability. Period.
I feel like saying: A general pox on everybody but the poor victim (RIP) and his household.
Especially when you are trained in nail identification...
They are easily startled.
Yeah, why is this done — so they don’t get accused of profiling rougher characters?
This kills both common sense and chivalry.
Any further, and we will have to invite them into our snowflake collection. Oh look, blue snowflakes.
DEAR LORD PLEASE HELP US!
Something is f**ked up in Wichita.
He was probably pulling up his pants. Only one person pulled that trigger. Just sayin’.
Is this the city where the partial-birth abortion stuff is going on? That could summon a serious satanic presence.
it isn’t just Wichita.
> Something is f**ked up in Wichita. <
Something is f**ked up everywhere. Let’s say I’m sitting at home watching TV. I hear a loud knock at my front door. I look out the window, and it’s the police.
I’m actually not sure what I’d do. If I answer the door the wrong way, I might get shot. Ten years ago that statement would have sounded nonsensical, and overly dramatic. But not now.
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