Hacker News Reader

Comment by coldtea | Hacker News Reader

>A swatting incident—the act of calling 911 to report a fake crime so armed responders storm an address—was organized on Discord in an attempt to intimidate Herring into handing over his valuable @tennessee Twitter handle.

That the police in the US would stom an address - in full SWAT gear and attitude nonetheless - because somebody "called", is one of the most amusing examples of the incompetency and lunacy of the police system.

View on HN

In which country will armed police not show up if an ongoing shooting is called in?

In which country the police has the worse death statistics in such situations (at least outside of some developing world backwater)?

In which country would such people move forward with weapons drawn, shouting commands, and making things worse?

> In which country the police has the worse death statistics in such situations (at least outside of some developing world backwater)?

In which countries are there as many guns available to the public?

> In which country would such people move forward with weapons drawn, shouting commands, and making things worse?

Is this not what you would expect to happen in a so-called armed conflict? The situation was successfully de-escalated.

> Is this not what you would expect to happen in a so-called armed conflict?

I think the point is to not make it into armed conflict between cops and person.

> The situation was successfully de-escalated.

Which situation was de-escalated?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com