attempted murder sounds right,because a situation could easily end up killing that person who is being swatted and that isnt even counting the fact that they're wasting time that the officers could be using to save lifes who were in ACTUAL danger
+Sky Carter Actually this is probably one of the reasons twitch requires you to add your facebook to log in now. Facebook has access to a lot of personal information including general location. And you actually can find a persons location through their skype. This may be also why cyber defenders are becoming more and more of a thing. It's becoming one of the most needed jobs as media grows, so yeah they need someone who knows how to search for I.P. Addresses. Even viewing the live stream itself would help. Example person calls in about whatever, police view live stream while listening to call, while doing so searching their ip info. Makes it easier to find who's lieing.
I remember the Kootra one, the officers turned off his webcam (which they are not allowed to do) and were trying to grill him on how he knew what was happening, apparently SWAT officers were unaware of what swatting someone is. They didn't disable the microphone, however, and audio continued for several minutes before Kootra told the officers that the webcam wasn't responsible for audio and they were still technically on stream, after which the officers disabled the microphone as well. Very aggressive behavior from the officers which is partially understandable given the information given prior. However also unnecessarily dangerous since they were required to travel through a 100% peaceful office to reach the given room, and shouting at/shoving someone who had surrendered before the officers even entered the room seems slightly out of protocol. There was also a lack of organization from the unit, with one officer yelling at Kootra to lie on the ground while another yelled for him to stand in the center of the room, which prompted Kootra to ask them to clarify what they exactly wanted him to do (before getting forced to the floor and a boot on his back).
in America they are trained to be threatening and the swat teams in America are actually MEANT to be lethal and to deal with highly lethal suspects. I can forgive you for not knowing that if you live in the UK but not if you live in the us,as that would be plain ignorance.
+Les Wallace They have no proof and he was cooperating. Spin it anyway you like, but all that unnecessary disorganization, volume, invasion of personal space, and aggression was unfounded given the circumstances. Not to mention the incoherence of the group's orders DOES show a lack of general competence, levelheadedness, and training, all of which these "lethal" SWAT teams are supposed to have under their belt long before they are let out into the field(though these circumstances cannot begin to compare to the field, considering the truth and conditions of the matter, so that's an even more unjustifiable and incompetent representation on their part). It's not right nor cool nor smart to label rightful critique as "plain ignorance" or foreign lack of understanding- that's called downplaying with excuses, son.
The SWAT people were very aggressive towards Matthewson. I understand that they are trained to treat every suspect as a threat and have to take extreme caution, but he was obviously co-operating and the SWAT officers had to know something was up when they walked in considering that the scene was nothing like it was described by the caller. They didn't need to be THAT rough.
He wasn't resisting or threatening them either. If you look at how almost any other tactical police force in the world works, you'll see that they work with little or no violence at all.
Btw Swatting someone is considered a crime, punishable by a $10,000 fine & up to 25 years in jail. This does not include any other charges that can be incurred by being sued by the victim of the swatting. This is just the current laws on it, law makers are attempting to make the punishments even more severe. I hope you enjoy this wealth of information.
Shit like this needs to fucking stop. How in the fucking world is twitch the top streaming website but doesn't have a good enough system to keep your private information like your IP and other shit safe? I don't even want to stream just because of assholes doing this for a good laugh. And the worst part about it is when the person who made the false call doesn't get caught and gets away with it...
Lol I really don't care what you guys think of this post but I actually did this to someone a couple of weeks ago just because he talked shit about my car (Honda Civic) while I was playing Call Of Duty so I called the cops on him claiming he threatened to rape my "girlfriend" which I don't have one anyways nor need one. Lmao the funniest shit ever when I overheard a cop questioning him on my headset! xD
It was just a random conversation while playing and i own one of the fastest cars in my block and when ppl talk shit about it I get pissed. so i pranked him by actually dialing 911 on this guy not really thinking what will happen since i never 911'd nobody before and next thing i know he got talked to by cop
+ElCapo you could get in serious fucking trouble for that though. I don't see why people swat other people. I understand if someone is talking shit and you want to fuck with them but if people are just playing a game and streaming it they don't deserve to get swatted.
Mai Naughton-Ceja i think there should be a code that only high-ranking CIA or FBI buildings can see through anonymous calls made in the past. just a suggestion.
+Gh0s Even your phone company can't do this, no way the cops can. I went through this with the FCC trying to stop a harasser once. Turns out it is really simple to spoof phone numbers, and very hard to get past the spoof.
+Gh0s What it should be is once the call has been made two squads will be dispatched simultaneously one to the "offender" and the other to the caller so we can have both in case the call was false.
+Slurp tastical Jurisdiction, they are not allowed to arrest someone out of theres. They would need to contact the RCMP or the O.P.P to make an arrest, and trust me, it won't happen.
The FBI is full scale chasing potential threats last spotted in the U.S. but they can't trace a simple fucking phone call. But I'm crazy if I spout my mouth about the NSA, then.
+The elite guardians Hate to be that person... but given the circumstances of your comment... *generation's *more dumb or just dumber *punctuation goes a long long way I'm going to just crawl back into the cesspool which I came from now.
Just saying, but you should be a bit more.. "outgoing", or rather, "feel" what you're saying.. I liked the video, but listening to you talk with such little enthusiasm was a bit off-putting, and actually somewhat depressing. Lol. Thanks for the vid, though.
Hirotrum if authorities know who was the caller, the caller will get a arrested by cops and FBI agents, the caller also will face a jail sentence. So, yes, swatting gets jail time.
I saw Jordan's stream and he actually handled it really well. The second he heard people shouting he said under his breath to his streamers "We're getting swatted." and quickly told the officers he had a prop gun in a nearby chest but no real weapons. He then told the swatters there was a livestream going on and they attempted to cover the camera (didn't really work though lol) but I believe he told them how to turn it off.
Making false phone calls to the police is no joke. It not only harms innocent, law abiding citizens, but also diverts attention away from the real threats.
I know retired FBI agents. One swatting and you WILL go to jail. There is no known statute of limitations. It's not only a dick move, it's a guranteed jail sentence.
Better make an "update". I live in Wichita. Yesterday, the cops killed a 27 year old man. Police shot him when he answered the door. A fellow gamer in LA made the "swatting" call. One man dead, the other probably going to jail. I will say, it appears the cops did a horrible friggin' job. All the man did was answer his door. Hell, how did the cops even know they had the right house?
OMG! I remember #11!!! I cannot remember the guys exact name...big something? Maybe it had the word fish in it. Anyways, we would always go on teamspeak and this guy was kind of...douchey, I guess? I mean, he was a 16 yr old kid. Anyways, there was some guy who thought he was cool(said he was from canada) that got the guy's IP I guess through teamspeak. So many memorys of this server! You can kind of see my name @5:12, I was a manager for the server, but only in high school.
+Shadowoc91 yeah....DDOSing a system just takes it offline for a period of time, not give the attacker information, unless they are then able to get onto the system? and take the information? i dunno.
gamenut112 1 year later im here to tell you wrong ! ddos doesnt take anything offline but yes asking it to spam an insane number of prompts endlessly at once can crash a server or lag it but yes ddos'ing can retrieve all kinds of info within the data base
Except from the point, that the narrator sounds like he really hates what he does, this channel is actually quite good and enjoyable. :) Good clips, very informative and somehow fun to watch. So thank you. You got yourself another sub. ;)
Not following orders isnt reason to shoot anyone. If tazer wasnt an option then convincing him to come out would have been a good thing to try before you SHOOT HIM!!! You know. What they did with the majority of the white people. Cant justify shooting someone in the face after they turned out to be 100% innocent.
+Padoryn Darkwater DID YOU EVEN LISTEN TO THE STORY?!?!? HE KEPT ON GOING BACK IN, ALL THEY KNEW HE COULD HAVE BEEN GETTING A GUN SO THEY SJOT HIM WITH RUBBER BULLETS THE NEXT TIME SO IF HE DID HAVE A GUN HE COULDNT GET IT, AND THEY ALSO DIDNT KNOW THAT IT WASNT REAL
+Ryan Kaegi yeah but he didn't have a gun. Can't shoot someone in the face based on a what if. Especially, like I said already, he was 100% innocent. They made no effort to figure out the situation. Had they done that, no one would have been shot. Like in the dozen other videos with the white guys. Had Lil Wayne and Chris Brown been at home they would have shot their black asses too.
If I was a streamer and got swatted, no matter how afraid I'd be, I'd be laughing because of how obscure it is. How do you think the swat would respond to a man suddenly laughing while being hand cuffed?
^ exactly the reason why my comment is valid. didn't choose to use any derogatory terms unlike you. but sure if pointing out how police or other government officials treat people based on their race makes me "racist" then fine. Your entitled to your opinion no matter how dumb or ignorant it may be.
The police have to take EVERY call seriously, its their job to do so. If you needed to call them for a ligament reason you would want them to take it seriously and get there ASAP right?
8:14 THAT's NOT WHAT A DDOS ATTACK IS. You can't get personal info from a DDOS. It's a brute force attack where you bombard a network with requests until it crashes.
The police have the resources to verify a call such as this, but unfortunately the police PREFER to practice there SWAT tactics on the citizens that they are sworn to protect. Maybe a good lawyer is in order!
A bit shocked to not see PhantomL0rd on the video. League of Legends player that got swatted, and after, stopped streaming that game. He still does stream today, just not the game he was playing, while swatted. Also is another, by the name of Gross Gore. He still plays the same game, and was able to come back quite quickly.
+OutsideStandards Why would you lie about such a pointless thing? Like how desperate are you for attention? Go get a social life and stop being a basement dweller.
Maybe a top Spookiest stories video. You would be a great narrator. Thats a compliment, if I was the marator on murder mystery I could make it sound like a kids show.
I live stream GTA5 online all the time. There is something us livestream gamers can do to prevent this from happening. Before I start my livestream, I call my local Police Department non emergency number and tell them who I am, my address, and that I am doing live stream video gaming. This lets the police know that if a severe call such as "swatting" comes in for my address, it is a hoax and they are usually able to track, find, or even catch the perpetrator. This advice was given to me by my local cyber crimes division as most the people who SWAT live stream gamers are out of state or even country. PLEASE let your local PD know when you are live streaming as it can help prevent this from happening and be a deterrent from people even attempting this. How many times have I been swatted? None, and it's going to stay that way!
