Conservative bloggers are the new targets of a series of “SWAT-ing” attacks — a decade-old hoax used to draw a SWAT team to the door of a political enemy.
It’s a bizarre series of events that’s consuming prominent conservative web sites, pitting conservative writers against a former federal convict — or his backers — who says he isn’t even familiar with SWAT-ing: an elaborate practical joke in which SWAT teams are falsely sent to someone’s home after a violent crime is reported. Those behind the SWAT-ing often mask their actual phone numbers, making the calls appear to originate from within the victim’s home.
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“There’s been hundreds of SWAT-ing instances where SWAT teams have come up to innocent third parties,” he said. “It’s putting innocent people at risk. It’s just a matter of time that we believe someone could get hurt.”
In the current hyper partisan political environment it is dangerous to speak out publicly, and the only reason to do so is if you will gain personally from doing so.
That's not violence, that's a prank.
I'm sure sending heavily armed SWAT to someone's house with the belief thay they commited a violent crime could no way end up going wrong.
