I got swatted... 

@@dolurosu from what I've read there was a case in 2019 where the victim died and the perpetrator was sentenced to 20 years - but there's no consistent punishment for swatting where no one is injured or killed, it's essentially 'you may be fined $1000 and/or face a prison sentence'

It also takes police away from doing their real jobs, to follow up on fake calls. And they have to treat every call like it could be serious; every second can matter in life or death situations.

I've heard that it's prosecuted as assault w/ a firearm b/c the caller is essentially putting things in motion which will result in the target-victim end up w/ a firearm (carried by a police officer) being pointed in their face. It's not attempted murder b/c it's not clear that the caller is intending to kill the target or simply trying to scare them...

It is treated like attempted murder when they catch ghem

If I were a steamer and had the money, I would reinforce the doors so they can't be busted down easily by a battering ram. Doing this can prepare you to get your family to safety. Installing cameras in the front and back of the house and also any sides is also important to have battlefield awareness.

+1. It's also completely ridiculous that the US police force goes full force based on a phone call with no evidence. here they would just send one car to see what is going on.

These are the types of people who fail to seek out entertainment and success in their own lives. So, they think it is amusing to try to ruin another person's life that they do not even personally know. Absolutely disgusting and pitiful, they find amusement in things like this because they have probably completed very little else in their personal and professional lives.

@@PixelTrooper I wholeheartedly agree why the fuck send a whole swat team over a prank call.

Maybe some loser is just mad Luke didn’t like starfield😂

@@PixelTrooper i get what ur trying to say but the problem is that what if the person had a bomb or a dead body. they can't just give them time to blow up or cover up the body. You could say that Luke gave his own address so why would it be ok but the problem is that people are suicidal as well. The police did not do anything wrong and that's why swatting has been taking so seriously. people are punished a lot when they do something like this

Don’t have an answer for the first question, but to answer your second question: It’s likely that whoever made the call claimed that he was holding someone hostage, or that he was going to kill someone, etc, this is not a normal response for most calls.

The police in the USA are infamously known for there disproportionate violence towards people both innocent and guilty. Individuals like the person who called this in take advantage of that and the guns blazing attitude most departments have to effectively get someone killed, and that is the goal they ultimately want them killed.

Fact that they have daily mass shootings might have something to do with the police response. Just a hunch.

​@@willkroll8094and police should be trained and have preparations for swatting, as it's no longer a new thing. Warrantless forced entry into domains without actual probable cause should be illegal, and phone calls alone should no longer be able to be used as probable cause.

@@BlindSp0tzthe cops have been doing shit like this LONG before us here in America had such a large mass shooting problem.

An experience they’ll never forget. Nothing they could have done differently either. Actions of one asshole completely destroy that person’s week/month, and potentially life.

Me too. I wonder if anyone knows the whereabouts of SSSniperWolf, this is her kind of thing, as we all know.

@@emlyndewar Well, you know the person that was at his old address is suffering the trauma of this. How do you feel safe in your home after that happens?

Welcome to the USA. What a disgrace that this still happens.

I hope he presses charges, in some places you can get a long sentence for swatting

Well they probably used VPN and VOIP. Hopefully they can figure out who it was.

@@godtiermullet Well, some of the VPN’s say they don’t keep logs. If that was true, using a VPN as in like an onion or double, or tripple VPN cannot be traced without those logs. That is how hackers get away with shit they use proxies as well. Even though proxies keep logs but are limited. But yes, a VPN that doesn’t keep logs cannot be traced. It is very very rare that it is. But it is impossible to know if a VPN truly doesn’t keep logs or taps your connection. For instance, I connect to multiple secure proxies and from those proxies I connect to multiple VPNs. Good luck tracing me. I watch Mutahar when it comes to this stuff, he knows his shit.

@The_Primary_Axiom somebody obviously spread the news. and if commercially available VPNs would really make you iinvisible they would be illegal...

​@@The_Primary_AxiomI truly believe that law enforcement/government can spy on you no matter what you do and the means they do it is kept top secret. All they need it a good enough reason.

Seriously these terminally online people need to be jailed for a lifetime

​@@LUCAS420BLZfact. Some people are sick and the Internet can make them sicker.

It's honestly disgusting to see that someone gets enjoyment from seeing someone lose their life and safety from the comfort of their home. Scary times we live in

welcome to the internet. Is this your first week?

@@theincrediblefella7984so you think its wrong for this

Yeah, unlike other swatted RU-vidrs who are very vocal in politics or picking fights, Luke just talk about games (which I'm pretty sure the reason)

Yeh most swattings I've seen are Political Commentators and the opposite side throws their toys out the pram and swats them. Can't understand who would have issues with Luke...

@@r3dr4te963as if being vocal about politics makes swatting someone somehow ok 🙄. Your comment here is literally what’s wrong with the internet and why people get swatted whatsoever

great point, this is so true

As a society brotha we are doomed

for fun and troll and attention

Only two viable reasons. Complete and utter idiocy (someone who's never been punched in the fucking face when crossing a line) or simple and heinous jealousy.

Attention. And Luke gave them exactly what they wanted by making this video.

Because he called someone’s favorite game “not good”

they would also have to pay for the swatting which is a nice extra fine of about $10k I believe

some streamers have said that they caught a lot of swatters in the past

@@PixelTrooper Isn't that only in California?

they will never find the perp because it was the feds

Swatting is not a thing of the past. The FBI only this year started tracking swatting incidents as their own thing, and estimates are that there are 1,000 or more per year in the United States, as opposed to about 400 per year a decade ago.

You teared up? Really?

Me too Luke hope you're okay mate

@@dr.loomis4221 god forbid I have a soul

Or simply just flat out bored, really. Some people just want to watch the world burn, Master Bruce.

Stone Cold Loser is a great title for a movie made about this

@@leonardpawils2217 haha cheers mate! 🍻

@@dylives7667 "Some people just want to watch the world burn, Master Bruce." Yes, and they're called losers.

Agreed, whoever did it is pathetic...

Why would they send a swat team without investigation , dude I could call and make up any story and they’ll send a whole swat team just like that? Wow

​@Yosemite_sam694 swat teams are for rapid responses to high threat situations, that being the case there isn't time to investigate, only act.

You dont seem to understand that the police are a reactionary force. When you dial 911, we are reacting. When seconds count, the police are minutes away. You leave investigations for detectives when you have TIME, calls that actually happen, and believe me calls like these that are not false flags do happen, you dont have time. You get out, make contact, and play it better safe than sorry. Were not gonna spend 20 minutes tryna figure if the call is legit because if it is and someone dies, guess what, then police are to blame for not reacting quick enough..perhaps you should wear the badge to educate yourself on these things.

lol, that would mean the cops do work, which isn't gonna happen. lmao, literally all they had to do was google Luke's name, and they didn't even do that.

@@Yosemite_sam694What's the alternative? If the cops get a call that says someone's building a bomb or trafficking kids, of course they should respond. The only way to determine that it's not real is to go check, and the only way to check safely is to be prepared for the possibility that it's real. That's what makes swatting so awful: it's not something that is easily solved.

Thank you for supporting and encouraging Luke!

Considering where you're from, I seriously doubt you have empathy (the mere act of bringing it up is a telltale sign) and are doing this just to virtue signal and dunk on Americans.

Guess the problem in this is, that you would kind of say: Our Police Force is likly to kill you and not doing it's job right ;) Wich from a European perspective might even be the actual problem, but I don't see that any proscecuter would take that move. Isn't "false suspicion of a criminal offense" a crime in the US? In Germany this will bring not less than 6 month and not more than 5 years of jail. And 5 years are a lot in Germany, where you basicly don't get more than 10 years beside "Safe custody" (Those guys you can not let out again, it's basicly "lifetime" but a judge will have to look over the state of possibility to resocialisation as rehabilitation is a basic right in Germany.)

Oh Swatting is definitely illegal... big penalties nowadays. But it's catching them that's the problem.

It's a shame every call isn't automatically traced when reporting a crime, I imagine this person would definitely be in cuffs and arrested by now, hopefully it happens soon and the real culprit is found.

​@@mickymeza6571every call absolutely should be. Could be helpful in many many cases.

They are working on laws at the state and federal level that will increase the penalties for swatting. It's already illegal, but they will make it more illegal soon.

It should be easy to trace the call and find them I hope

Can you explain I'm from the UK is this some new American thing? And can't the police just ignore people who do it or ask for proof they're actually dangerous?

​@@makefoxhoundgreatagain842I mean, it's over the phone. They have no way to know if it's true or not, they pretty much have to act.

​@@makefoxhoundgreatagain842it's not new it's happened for years.

the swat thing is ridiculous. they just go full force without more knowledge of the incident. america is crazy. kinda weird they are not trying to stop illegal immigrants with that kind of force.

​@@--Traveler--It's not like they can just pick and choose what reports they react to. They have to treat any report like it's an actual threat, since they cannot risk failing to act when someone calls in with a genuine emergency. It's not just the police either, it's all the first responders, and thankfully they do. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for this kind of behaviour, but I'm grateful for the professionals and how seriously they take their jobs.

They were hurt just not physically.

Always nice to see when you realise two channels you watch like/respect each others work. Is utterly bizarre swat teams can so easily be used as a prank. Especially to someone with a young family.

Not if they called from a burner or text now app

That is if they can trace back to the caller since some of these cases ends with the caller not being found out

@@yaboyreflex1919 FBI can and will still find you. Don’t think they don’t have the resource.

It depends on the circumstances. While there are many bills proposed wishing to institute a mandatory felony charge as well as a base sentencing, a "simple" swatting call may just yield a misdemeanor charge as a misuse of 911 services, like in my state. That carries a maximum 1 year sentence and $10k fine. There are special circumstances that can increase the charge, or add charges, such as falsely reporting a school shooter or whatever. Of course if the victim is injured or killed, felony charges can result. First time offenders can get off scott free barring injury or death.

I've never heard of a swatting case ever actually being prosecuted.

🤣

Possible that call was from another country, good luck doing anything in that case.

@@DiabolicCrusher They've tracked down swatters before and given them deservedly harsh sentences.

Is this a joke

​@@sbirkkkdo you think swatting is okay??

Yeah, I've been in a raid. It's scary, glad he's okay.

@@sethhowerton1489 can’t even imagine dude

I thought that was so much more money than it is lol

@@dr.loomis4221 welp what can I say… depreciated currency lol I did what I could. Just want to contribute

@@dr.loomis4221how much money is it?

The issue is finding the people that did it. Could live far from the us in a non-allied country as well

​@@ryanaxelrod6140 most swatters are British teenagers

​@BaneOfPhillipBurnellhe's just saying unverifiable info, but he's right about swatters being at the same or lower maturity level as teenagers

exactly once people lose security and become alert they stay that way being able to just chill becomes a chore i believe if you get someone swatted you should just straight up get charged with whatever you said to get the police to show up.

@@ryanaxelrod6140then call Batman. He has no borders.

I knew Starfield fans were weird, but I didn't think they were legitimately psychotic...

Swatters are basically the epitome of terminally online. They're either complete psychopaths (like the "Swautistic" maniac who's currently behind bars) or people who are so isolated from normal society, that they've become detached from reality and common sense.

@@Hugsloth Bethesda fans are definately something else.. A lot of these die-hard Bethesda fanboys are people who got into one of their games at a hard time in their life, and here's this big fantasy world for them to get sucked into and forget their troubles. As a result, they have formed an incredibly unhealthy parasocial bond with this company, this brand. They will seem like the nicest bunch when you're praising Bethesda, but if you dare suggest they might not be all that great, they will turn into the most toxic and unhinged fanboys you will ever encounter on the internet.

Fr fr. It makes me afraid of being a content creator because I don't want something to happen to my pets just because someone is unhinged.

They did their jobs. It's all that matters

@@heavyartillery-qm5huare you seriously defending them in all these different comments? Are you police or something?

So just because most of those comments are stupid I should be stupid as well? nah. I am smart. The cops should treat deranged phone calls seriously. @@CaptainEffort

@@heavyartillery-qm5hu “I am smart”, well you have me beat. Please continue liking all your own comments too btw

I like how you never have anything of substance to say @@CaptainEffort

Do these swatters ever get caught and what even is the punishment?

@@narutonuttyfines and heavy sentences in prison And inmates hate these swatters. You are seen as a pdf file in prison if you swat. Because they view it as no joke as well, you’re a snitch in their eyes

psychopaths

@@GokulosestoavirusSource lol?

@@narutonutty Generally the people who do it aren't clever enough to cover their own tracks.

Hate to have to say it, but I hope you're also taking precautions. :(

Don't talk to the police, especially if you're the innocent party. Luke provided the police with his address, and they broke into his house with lethal weapons ready, terrorized his family, and kidnapped him. LAWYER. Talk to my lawyer is all you say, and then spend the next day or so in a hotel. I'm sorry this happened to you Luke.

Indeed, the SWAT are vile.

not the swat, but the person who called them @@GholaTleilaxu

@@CheeZbred69 SWAT are not people.

@@CheeZbred69when was the last time swat stopped an act of terrorism??……I’ll wait

They work when they want to. They're America's #1 gang

ya, I agree. I don't even understand how it is legal for them to kick doors in

if they knock and wait in a real situation people die, normal police arent allowed to just kick doors in, swat is an extreme emergency force when theres a deadly threat, they cant waste time knocking and waiting, the issue isnt swat, the issue is the people calling swat on innocent people@@CrAAAstastic

​@@Versace_sheetsplease tell us more about how little you know.

@@joshsquatch7474 enlighten us on this phenomenon wise one

Yeah, that struck me as well. Why do that to someone who is clearly a cooperating witness?

Yeah, that makes no sense. No criminal in history would do that. If the police were still concerned for whatever reason, a detective could come over and talked to Luke in person, checked out the house, and gotten Luke's report. It's like they look for any excuse at all to put on the body armor and pull out the assault rifles.

​@@ChaseSchleich It's swat. So my guess is it could be a trick or something. Plenty of people just call cops to kill them. If anything It's just a horrible situation to be put in for everyone and a waste of resources. The people responsible for this mess need to be held accountable.

US cops for ya

Right? Like ppl work very hard not to understand why so many ppl in this country want police reform but this is just a quick & easy example. All of this kind of behavior, the fact that "swatting" can exist as a terror tactic with something as simple as a "prank" phone call from a random noboby, is a massive violation of peoples rights and their sense of security. And for what? People WERE harmed by this and ppl could have been killed, both civilians, completely uninvolved ones, and also the police themselves, over NOTHING. Actually nothing. Something completely unverified in any way, and the only way they choose to verify it is to mobilize a death squad, even AFTER they are told directly by the person that it was not them, the EXACT SAME amount of information they went on to begin with. This is actual insanity. People can and will die because of this and its not just some rando psycho's fault. This SHOULD NOT be standard procedure.

Very nice of you to do that, hope all is well for everyone.

It's funny hahaha

Then if it was a real situation and they only sent like one or two cops to check. you would be crying and screaming about how bad the police are for not responding accordingly to a big situation. The phone call is the evidence what else are they meant get in such a short amount of time? They have to take it seriously.

@@thecultofcaged You have no idea what my opinion on law enforcement is. I figured my comment would give you a clue. Regardless, you're still then saying that it's okay if innocent people are killed because it "might" be a real situation. If Luke was killed and his family traumatized, or even this totally innocent sleeping person, what would you say? "Well it could have been real so they have to respond this way"? "Thoughts and prayers"? Ridiculous. Nowhere else is that acceptable.

@@thecultofcagedin Germany the police can’t just enter a home unless a court greenlit it and they need to be presented with proper evidence. And it’s still one of the safest places on this planet.

@@thecultofcaged "Sir someone claiming to be Kim Jong Un called and told us he nuked a city!" "Good heavens! Fire every nuke in our arsenal! Make sure to use excessive force! We have the phone call and what other evidence are we supposed to get in such a short amount of time? After all we dont want be be called soft by those snowflakes, so lets make sure to do as much unnecessary harm as possible so no one questions our authority!"

Especially in the US where guns are everywhere, you'd think they have better protocols, intelligence & info about people making calls like these. In Australia, you have to tell them your full name and info and wait to get verified before they even consider your call. Just crazy

It's possible the person in the livestream was just making a guess. It wouldn't be the first time someone who was actively streaming abruptly shut down the stream for something like this. It's not the only reason someone might abruptly shut down and leave, but if you have 100+ viewers speculating it's not shocking if at least one person raises the idea.