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baron von doodle [OhFark]  
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2019-09-16 3:33:38 AM  
Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.
 
King Something  
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2019-09-16 3:37:52 AM  

baron von doodle: Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.


Welcome to America. The cops who actually shot the guy didn't get so much as a stern talking-to.
 
FarkingStan [OhFark]  
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2019-09-16 3:43:47 AM  
Wow. I'm pretty conservative on how much time people should get for jail terms (as in, not much, vs. Conservative which = lots), and even I think this person deserves a decade or more.
 
Mad Canadian  
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2019-09-16 3:46:15 AM  
Did they misspell 'months'?

Because 15 months for getting an innocent man killed because of a horrible prank doesn't sound right.

It's 15 years, right?  Right?
 
Neeek  
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2019-09-16 3:51:35 AM  
Should be life in prison with no possibility of parole. Or death.
 
Alunan  
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2019-09-16 3:52:57 AM  

King Something: baron von doodle: Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.

Welcome to America. The cops who actually shot the guy didn't get so much as a stern talking-to.


This pisses me off the most. It doesn't matter if the impetus of the call was fabricated, that doesn't absolve the police department from behaving professionally and appropriately. A sniper shooting without orders from across the street when closer cops hadn't fired? Officer Rapp should be in prison and the DA would let him off the hook should be charged with obstruction.
 
Jack of All Games  
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2019-09-16 3:52:59 AM  
They guy that actually placed the call got 20 years. The person in this article "merely" solicited the act.

/ sentence still seems kind of light
 
backhand.slap.of.reason  
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2019-09-16 4:01:21 AM  
Thought he was reaching for a gun in his waistband.

Uh-huh.
 
Boo_Guy  
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2019-09-16 4:05:27 AM  

Alunan: King Something: baron von doodle: Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.

Welcome to America. The cops who actually shot the guy didn't get so much as a stern talking-to.

This pisses me off the most. It doesn't matter if the impetus of the call was fabricated, that doesn't absolve the police department from behaving professionally and appropriately. A sniper shooting without orders from across the street when closer cops hadn't fired? Officer Rapp should be in prison and the DA would let him off the hook should be charged with obstruction.



This judge pretty much admitted that police are violent asshats, and that anyone calling on them should know that.

"While handing out the sentence, Melgren said he could have predicted consequences for calling an armed police force to respond to a reported escalating situation of violence."

That no one who matters sees a problem with this is f*cked up. Swatting wouldn't be a thing if police weren't such a bunch of unaccountable thugs.
 
Smoking GNU [TotalFark]  
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2019-09-16 4:05:55 AM  
Fifteen months. Fifteen months? Are you farking shiatting me? Someone died because of his bruised ego and he couldn't deal with it like a normal person, and he gets 15 months?
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]  
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2019-09-16 4:06:17 AM  

baron von doodle: Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.


I'm sure the police who did the killing served large sentences....
 
Trik  
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2019-09-16 4:15:49 AM  
He should have gotten 15 years and a world class ass kicking.
 
Resident Muslim [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-09-16 4:17:59 AM  
Wow. If HE got 15 months, can you imagine how many years the person who actually killed the victim would get?

/this is stupid. This whole thing is stupid and depressing.
//imagine being a loved one of the gamer shot and killed
 
GreenSun  
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2019-09-16 4:25:14 AM  
Dumbass tag is well deserved by "justice". This isn't justice at all. Asshole got an innocent person killed. Asshole needs to be sent to prison for YEARS. Or maybe send a SWAT team to kill this turd by surprise.
 
powhound  
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2019-09-16 4:25:33 AM  
Whole lot of fail here. Everyone involved should get the same sentencing. Minimum 5-10 years.
 
Maybe you should drive [TotalFark]  
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2019-09-16 4:30:36 AM  
This whole thing is farked up six ways to Sunday.  It's a fark up on all levels.  From the stupid ass plan, to the terrible response from the PD, to the trial and sentencing.  There just really aren't words to explain how farked up this whole thing is.
 
God-is-a-Taco  
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2019-09-16 4:36:44 AM  
We don't put guns in jail because they're simple unthinking tools that simply carry out the will of the user, so it's a nice precedent that militarized police are legally seen as identical
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil  
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2019-09-16 5:00:09 AM  
It's going to be Call of Bubba come shower time.
 
Snatch Bandergrip  
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2019-09-16 5:11:23 AM  
Boo_Guy:  Swatting wouldn't be a thing if police weren't such a bunch of unaccountable thugs.
 
Averam  
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2019-09-16 5:21:44 AM  

puffy999: baron von doodle: Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.

I'm sure the police who did the killing served large sentences....


The only "large sentences" the police will have to deal with is a couple of lengthy paragraphs on the report about the murder of this guy.
 
PunGent  
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2019-09-16 5:30:35 AM  
Better article:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-gamer-sentenced-15-months-prison-fatal-swatting-case-n1054331

Farking prosecutor actually only recommended 2 years probation. Normally I say we lock too many people up in this country, for too long, but not this time  :/

/now compare this case with the homeless black woman living in her van, whose crime was enrolling her kid in the local public school
//she got five years
 
Usernate  
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2019-09-16 5:36:47 AM  
Hitmen for Hire, just call us at our hotline now: 911.
 
PapermonkeyExpress  
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2019-09-16 5:36:53 AM  

Snatch Bandergrip: Boo_Guy:  Swatting wouldn't be a thing if police weren't such a bunch of unaccountable thugs.


What the actual Fark?????

Police are told there was a shooting and kidnapping in progress. You purposefully create a highly tense situation with an expectation of violence.

"Wouldn't be a thing...."

God, some of you Farkers need to get your head on straight.
 
Prank Call of Cthulhu  
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2019-09-16 5:38:12 AM  
prosecutors decided not to press charges against the officer who shot him and thought Finch reached for a gun in his waistband.

As a cop, your job is to put up with being scared that someone might be reaching for something. That is why we pay you. If, as a society, we just wanted everyone dead who was acting hinkey, we'd save a lot of money by just firing all the cops, and running around armed and shooting each other the moment anyone got the least bit out of order. Think of all the money we'd save! But we don't want that.

Your job is to put yourself in dangerous situations and err on the side of caution. You don't get to be judge, jury, and executioner until you're 100% goddamned sure that the person who is "reaching for something" actually has a something that's a loaded gun that's going to shoot you, and even then you better have exhausted every possible de-escalation option.

Is that scary? Sure. Is it dangerous? Yup. Might it get you killed? Sure might. But that's literally what we pay you for. If you're so much of a goddamned drippy, scared little pussy that you just go banging away at everyone who "might" be reaching for "something," then go do something else. Go be a WalMart greeter. That might be more your style. We don't need you as a cop. There are over 300 million people in this country. If you can't handle that job description, I GUARANTEE you I can immediately find someone else who can.
 
maxandgrinch [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-09-16 5:38:44 AM  
Depending on your salary, cheaper than hiring a hitman; and any hitman who would do it for less than 15 months of your salary, is either a cop or probably blackmail you for more afterwards.

That's what my BF in Canada says, he knows a lot about that kinda stuff- you wouldn't know him.
 
PapermonkeyExpress  
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2019-09-16 5:43:37 AM  

PunGent: Better article:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-gamer-sentenced-15-months-prison-fatal-swatting-case-n1054331

Farking prosecutor actually only recommended 2 years probation. Normally I say we lock too many people up in this country, for too long, but not this time  :/

/now compare this case with the homeless black woman living in her van, whose crime was enrolling her kid in the local public school
//she got five years


She was also selling drugs, dude. That was the reason for the 5 yr sentence.

Somehow that always gets left out.

https://m.ctpost.com/news/article/Tanya-McDowell-arrested-in-Bridgeport-on-drug-1431928.php
 
Zeb Hesselgresser  
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2019-09-16 5:55:28 AM  
Red Flag Laws still cool though.
 
almejita  
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2019-09-16 6:00:25 AM  
Maybe thee guy who got killed was a serial killer and had killed 500 manladychilds.  Then these guys get a parade, a day off, and a coupon for Arbys.

I bet that is closer to the truth than any of you know.
 
lifeslammer  
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2019-09-16 6:12:57 AM  

baron von doodle: Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.


Im sure there is no chance of bad things happening to him after........

Or during. Preferably during. I hear there is basically no medical care in prison so hopefully he gets a nasty infection and loses his arms to it
 
Millennium  
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2019-09-16 6:18:36 AM  
15 months for murder with depraved indifference. I see we ha e a judge from the Brock Turner school of jurisprudence.
 
padraig  
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2019-09-16 6:19:26 AM  
There are black men serving 10 times that for mere possession.

This is beyond farked up.
 
PapermonkeyExpress  
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2019-09-16 6:23:54 AM  

Zeb Hesselgresser: Red Flag Laws still cool though.


There is just no way Red Flag laws would EVER be used like this or any other retaliatory manner.

It's science.
 
Ketchuponsteak  
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2019-09-16 6:28:47 AM  

baron von doodle: Someone died due to his intentional actions and he gets less than two years. That's goddamn stupid.


So what. The policemen who murdered him got nothing.
 
proteus_b  
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2019-09-16 6:32:30 AM  
If the victim in this case had been a close friend or relative of mine---well I guess I'd take that fifteen months as a guideline, and in thirty months get my freedom back.
 
dragonchild  
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2019-09-16 6:32:32 AM  
It's amazing just how effective swatting is.  Drop a fabricated tip and they just go in with guns a-blazin'.  I think even orcs are less stupid & violent, and they're fictional creatures because Tolkien needed baddies who were stupid & violent.
 
kmfjd  
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2019-09-16 6:32:53 AM  

PapermonkeyExpress: Snatch Bandergrip: Boo_Guy:  Swatting wouldn't be a thing if police weren't such a bunch of unaccountable thugs.

What the actual Fark?????

Police are told there was a shooting and kidnapping in progress. You purposefully create a highly tense situation with an expectation of violence.

"Wouldn't be a thing...."

God, some of you Farkers need to get your head on straight.


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Ketchuponsteak  
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2019-09-16 6:33:46 AM  

PapermonkeyExpress: Snatch Bandergrip: Boo_Guy:  Swatting wouldn't be a thing if police weren't such a bunch of unaccountable thugs.

What the actual Fark?????

Police are told there was a shooting and kidnapping in progress. You purposefully create a highly tense situation with an expectation of violence.

"Wouldn't be a thing...."

God, some of you Farkers need to get your head on straight.


You are the one who is screwed up.

Why is swatting an American thing?

I know what would happen in normal countries, a mild annoyance at most.
 
Spego  
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2019-09-16 6:33:46 AM  
'In one courtroom statement, Viner said he "never intended anything to happen."'

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holdmybones  
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2019-09-16 6:36:23 AM  

Neeek: Should be life in prison with no possibility of parole. Or death.


What? Like freeze him?
 
detonator  
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2019-09-16 6:46:52 AM  
Dude who died had nothing to do with the game. Imagine the Manson family getting fifteen months for killing the kid who was at Sharon Tate's house selling a radio to the caretaker.
 
ltdanman44 [BareFark]  
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2019-09-16 7:10:32 AM  

Alunan: A sniper shooting without orders


it wasn't even a sniper.  the swat team was not called.  this was a street cop with no crisis, tactical, or hostage training.
 
ltdanman44 [BareFark]  
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2019-09-16 7:12:39 AM  
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he no scoped him
 
groppet [TotalFark]  
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2019-09-16 7:21:17 AM  
15 months and two years without video games? What the fark?!? Was no dessert just too harsh? Should be at least 20 years and never touch another video game for the rest of his life. What an ahole.
 
Egoy3k  
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2019-09-16 7:21:29 AM  
It's pretty bad when you can get people killed just by calling the police. The kid needs to be held responsible in a much bigger way but the system that makes death a very possible end result of a 'swatting' is broken as well.
 
wage0048  
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2019-09-16 7:22:50 AM  
Fifteen months plus amputation of both thumbs and both forefingers would be okay.
 
ansius  
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2019-09-16 7:27:39 AM  
This guy has farked up the lives of several people and their families because he got butthurt in a game of call of duty.

I know it's bad to rely on stereotypes but this guy fills the mould of the entitled white boy gamer.
 
soupafi  
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2019-09-16 7:29:33 AM  
I thought if you hire a hit man, you get charged as if you killed or attempted to kill someone.
 
soupafi  
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2019-09-16 7:34:52 AM  

Prank Call of Cthulhu: prosecutors decided not to press charges against the officer who shot him and thought Finch reached for a gun in his waistband.

As a cop, your job is to put up with being scared that someone might be reaching for something. That is why we pay you. If, as a society, we just wanted everyone dead who was acting hinkey, we'd save a lot of money by just firing all the cops, and running around armed and shooting each other the moment anyone got the least bit out of order. Think of all the money we'd save! But we don't want that.

Your job is to put yourself in dangerous situations and err on the side of caution. You don't get to be judge, jury, and executioner until you're 100% goddamned sure that the person who is "reaching for something" actually has a something that's a loaded gun that's going to shoot you, and even then you better have exhausted every possible de-escalation option.

Is that scary? Sure. Is it dangerous? Yup. Might it get you killed? Sure might. But that's literally what we pay you for. If you're so much of a goddamned drippy, scared little pussy that you just go banging away at everyone who "might" be reaching for "something," then go do something else. Go be a WalMart greeter. That might be more your style. We don't need you as a cop. There are over 300 million people in this country. If you can't handle that job description, I GUARANTEE you I can immediately find someone else who can.


THIS. Cops now are cowards. If you fear for your life on every interaction, it's time to look for a new career.
 
adj_m  
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2019-09-16 7:35:23 AM  

PapermonkeyExpress: Snatch Bandergrip: Boo_Guy:  Swatting wouldn't be a thing if police weren't such a bunch of unaccountable thugs.

What the actual Fark?????

Police are told there was a shooting and kidnapping in progress. You purposefully create a highly tense situation with an expectation of violence.

"Wouldn't be a thing...."

God, some of you Farkers need to get your head on straight.


A completely innocent peson opened their door and was summarily executed, and you don't see a problem with that.

Police are expected to actually investigate reports, and not just take every call at face value. Even the bare minimum here wasn't performed.
 
Darth_Lukecash  
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2019-09-16 7:43:44 AM  

Neeek: Should be life in prison with no possibility of parole. Or death.


No possibility of death? Man, you are mean.
 
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