Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

Post by mcintyre1994 » Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 3:18 PM UTC

alsetmusic wrote: post #162

> In January 2024, an individual affiliated with the Torswats Telegram account and claiming to be a friend of Filion suggested that he was part of a group aiming to incite racial violence and that he sought money to “buy weapons and commit a mass shooting.” The allegation aligns with a written tip, placed to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center in April 2023 and obtained by WIRED, alleging that the person behind…

Post by bcdtttt » Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 3:18 PM UTC

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #9

Okay so like, genuinely not trying to do a "back in my day" fuckin thing here, but also: what the fuck is wrong with kids? Back when I was coming up, pranking at it's absolute worst was like, filling a dudes shoes with yogurt in the locker room, or like, putting plastic bugs in people's desks n shit. Why the fuck are teenagers trying to get each other murdered by cops!?

Post by bcdtttt » Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 3:22 PM UTC

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #118

stavros wrote: post #51

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It's a US cultural thing to either avoid blaming the police for anything, or make excuses for them. Brutal police behavior is seen as either acceptable, or what even desirable . I've seen reddit posts where a protester slightly taunts the police and gets pepper sprayed in the face, and all the commenters were gleefully saying things like "fuck around and find out", without even thinking that maybe there wasn't enough…

I've also seen reddit posts where the cop did everything right and people still criticized.

Post by stavros » Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 3:23 PM UTC

Ajedi32 wrote: post #189

stavros wrote: post #185

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What if in the call they claim the suspect has a nuclear bomb and is threatening to blow up the city? It's kind of a similar scenario, given that I can't remember either of these ever happening. People here don't tend to have guns.

People in the US "don't tend to" take hostages and threaten to shoot them either. "Don't tend to" isn't the same as "it never happens".

Post by bcdtttt » Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 3:27 PM UTC

Manuel_D wrote: post #104

jrmg wrote: post #79

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Around 1000 people per year, which I absolutely agree is terrible - but at the same time, the population is over 300,000,000 so it stretches the meaning of the word to call it ‘regular’. https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...

Of those 1000 people, the vast majority are armed and actively threatening either the public, the police officers themselves or both.