That headline, though. He made fake 911 calls. Or he made false reports in 911 calls.
If you report fake 911 calls, you’re helping police to catch the swatter.
If you call yourself a cyber-terrorist you should be ransomwaring banks, not swatting normal people
“The caller laughed and taunted officers, stating that he was hiding under multiple VPNs (virtual private networks),”
The article states the cop who heard the taunt traveled a long distance to be there at sentencing.
“Remember me?”
As long as it wasn’t on tax paper dime for travel expenses I’m ok with that level of petty.
“Like pouring salt in the wound, you left a voicemail for our chief of police directing him to an online post where you gloated about the event. You wasted countless hours when our patrol officers could have responded to emergencies. I traveled 2400 miles to tell you this in person. I told you that you would be held accountable,” Grispino said during the hearing.
Power move
Listening to the audio, he knew exactly what he was doing and took absolute glee in being a “cyber terrorist”. This wasn’t some random mischief, he was a serious prick who deserves the prison time.
*Should be supervision for the rest of his life. Psychopath like this, there’s a good chance he will try swatting or hacking whoever prosecuted him.
“To know that I caused so much pain and irreversible damage to someone for no reason other than petty reasons. It’s disheartening to me, to my family,” Garcia said in court. Garcia said he had an online persona that disconnected him from reality.
He’s really sorry though, he had no idea UwU
Swatting should be treated as attempted murder. If a person dies in the altercation, then premeditated murder.
Swatting should be considered a failure of law enforcement.
If a police department gets tricked into Swatting an innocent party due to a fraudulent call to 911, the entire department should be disbanded and replaced with officers who do due diligence before busting people’s doors down. If anyone dies, the officer who signed off on the raid gets charged with murder.
If a police department gets tricked into Swatting an innocent party due to a fraudulent call to 911, the entire department should be disbanded and replaced with officers who do due diligence before busting people’s doors down.
But what if it’s actually serious?
I believe US law punishes the person committing a crime if the police kills someone intervening to said crime.
