This happens in europe too tomshardware.com/…/linux-dev-swatted-live-during-… this happened in Germany, but no SEK was involved (german equivalent of SWAT). His wife was so shocked, he mentioned they moved out of the country.
It’s an American thing. The goal is to hopefully use the police to kill the streamer since police often are skittish and tend to shoot first before verifying what is going on.
Noja@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why don’t people send police to the white house and houses of CEOs on a cooldown?
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Because America worships pedophilia and psychopathy.
Zink@programming.dev 1 week ago
Because the police are mercenaries, not wild animals. They generally don’t bite the hand that feeds. Besides, they still have 99% of the population to target.
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Why don’t the king’s guards attack the king?
The police know their job is to enforce the law, but they also know who gets a free pass… or at least who gets a lot more leeway than other people. At a minimum it changes “shoot first and ask questions later” into “ask questions then maybe shoot”.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t think the goal is to get them killed most of the time. It’s mostly kids thinking they’re “pranking” them, and just want to scare them.
glitch1985@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Especially when they’re led to believe the person in the home is unstable and well armed.