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LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police
The Wichita Eagle ^ | December 30, 2017 | Nichole Manna

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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: gamer; kansas; police; swat
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To: HiTech RedNeck

““How do you, in California, know there’s trouble going down in Wichita?””

Exactly. Any non-direct local 911 calls should be suspect 100%.


61 posted on 12/30/2017 7:50:37 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Leaning Right
Just like a fireman rushing into a burning building is put in more danger. It is, unfortunately, the nature of the job.

We ought to know it by now. Public sector unions have pretty well killed chivalry dead. Yeah... if possible also I'd want the most dangerous things approached by officers who are single and aren't "worried about returning to their families." By stressing just one side of a multi-sided issue, these rascally lefties can really get us jerking around.

62 posted on 12/30/2017 7:51:59 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: George from New England

It apparently was a fluke of the way that non emergency numbers can forward calls to emergency dispatch. It is double plus ungood to skirt traceability.


63 posted on 12/30/2017 7:55:14 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: AppyPappy
He was probably pulling up his pants

To a trigger-happy cop, that's a threat. Cops are becoming as much of a threat to your life as criminals.

64 posted on 12/30/2017 7:57:54 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Leaning Right
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.

I have wondered the same thing. I have decided that I will call 911 to verify police presence first, then negotiate the situation over the phone. Not going to take chances with my family.

65 posted on 12/30/2017 7:58:05 AM PST by ibheath
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To: Leaning Right

From reports, there was only one shit, the fatal one, and many police on scene. That means only one nervous, trigger-happy cop pulled the trigger. The rest saw no danger from the victims actions.


66 posted on 12/30/2017 8:00:00 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Delta 21
IIRC, another thread on FR I read yesterday said the man reached for his waistband or for something in his waistband.

But I don't think that is "provocation" enough to kill the guy. He could have just been hitching his pants up or scratching his belly. Or reaching for a weapon. Problem is, police don't know which it is.

Police operation tactics will have to be tweaked to prevent this outright killing of an innocent citizen again.

In the meantime, throw the frickin' book and kitchen sink at this guy they arrested. Send a message.

Prayers for the family. May the poor deceased gentleman Rest In Peace.

67 posted on 12/30/2017 8:00:10 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Leaning Right

“Ten years ago that statement would have sounded nonsensical, and overly dramatic. But not now.”


For heaven’s sake your chances of getting killed by a cop are far less than your chances of getting killed in an automobile accident.

Are you going to avoid automobiles?

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68 posted on 12/30/2017 8:02:21 AM PST by Mears
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To: Fido969

I meant: “shot”


69 posted on 12/30/2017 8:02:40 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Fido969

I meant: “shot”


70 posted on 12/30/2017 8:02:50 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Right Brother

Or even one that isn’t “trigger happy” but got the mandatory non-profiling everybody’s-the-same-kind-of-danger training.

One hopes there would at least be a “Sir, hands up, there’s been a serious crime reported in this house.” And even yet that could meet incredulity. Kind of the way Roy Moore was when he got hit with that thicket of lies. He didn’t spring back at his top form.


71 posted on 12/30/2017 8:03:05 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: G Larry
Family says the victim was NOT a gamer.

That was just on-line chatter.

An article posted on FR yesterday stated the idiot from California gave the Wichita cops the wrong address. The guy that was murdered by the cops was a totally innocent person.

72 posted on 12/30/2017 8:03:20 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Train like you shoot, shoot like you train.

Our “betters” want us dead. Plain and simple.


73 posted on 12/30/2017 8:03:37 AM PST by null and void (It is not trends but choices that that matter most at the key moments of history)
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To: Right Brother

“Cops are becoming as much of a threat to your life as criminals. “


Do you have some stats on that?

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74 posted on 12/30/2017 8:04:02 AM PST by Mears
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To: Traveler59
Pajama boy's kin? Must have lost playing an online game and couldn't take the humiliation.

It was over a $2 bet in the game Call of Duty.

75 posted on 12/30/2017 8:04:41 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: null and void

A lot of troubles like this that cut against chivalry can be blamed on our modern secular left.

The “betters” in this case might not even wear a blue suit at all.


76 posted on 12/30/2017 8:05:39 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Fido969

I think you meant shot...


77 posted on 12/30/2017 8:05:39 AM PST by null and void (It is not trends but choices that that matter most at the key moments of history)
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To: Rebelbase

People carry smart phones now. They move and don’t change their phone numbers...because there is no reason to.

I can guarantee you that guy who did this didn’t run down to the corner gas station to make a pay phone call. He used his smart phone. I’m sure that’s how they caught him.


78 posted on 12/30/2017 8:06:09 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Mears

Look up the most dangerous occupation, and you’ll see that pizza delivery driver is more dangerous than cop (cops aren’t even in the top ten)

So, do you think pizza delivery drivers should have a licence to kill whenever tthey claim they “feel threatened”?


79 posted on 12/30/2017 8:07:59 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: null and void

This could be partly due to the lawyer set leaning on the blue set, who given their druthers might choose something that is conspicuously more chivalrous and civic minded.

I know we’re mad at the cop who shot, but not everyone acts in full freedom of action. Baleful influences can commandeer aspects of a soul. We ought to be madder at the folks who imposed something subhuman — yes, subhuman — on police forces.


80 posted on 12/30/2017 8:10:47 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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