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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““How do you, in California, know there’s trouble going down in Wichita?””
Exactly. Any non-direct local 911 calls should be suspect 100%.
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.
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.
To a trigger-happy cop, that's a threat. Cops are becoming as much of a threat to your life as criminals.
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.
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.
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.
“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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I meant: “shot”
I meant: “shot”
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.
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.
Train like you shoot, shoot like you train.
Our “betters” want us dead. Plain and simple.
“Cops are becoming as much of a threat to your life as criminals. “
Do you have some stats on that?
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It was over a $2 bet in the game Call of Duty.
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.
I think you meant shot...
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.
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”?
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.
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