SWAT Raids Yet Another Livestreaming Counter-Strike Player

kael013

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Riotguards said:
yes i agree, the police responding to a possible sandy hooks should assess the risk and make sure that its not a prank phone call

by the way you assume an innocent looking person is innocent, i guess children have never killed people or anyone else for that matter that just looks or acts friendly (yet have murdered people, etc, etc)

gosh darn those police take far too many precautions, why can't they politely knock on the door and ask the bad guy to give his gun up, asking nicely you know because manners matter
I'm getting a sarcastic vibe from this, so...

They busted into the room and found him (the guy they were told had hostages and had killed some) alone and unarmed with his hands already up. So naturally they get him on the ground and put a boot on his back as they handcuffed him while saying things like "************, don't you even move now". The guy with his boot on his back even looked right at the computer. All he had to do was walk over and investigate what was up on it (or just ask the suspect, like they did later) and they most likely would have come to the conclusion that [i/]maaaybe[/i] something fishy was up with the whole situation. But no, they all hang around and report in and shit. Then there's the "What about this is funny to you?" thing. Yeah, the guy is kneeling there handcuffed and is being completely passive, let's harass him! The police's initial reaction while breaching was entirely appropriate. Even handcuffing the guy and questioning him was appropriate (seeing as how that's standard procedure and stuff). It was the insults and roughness to a cooperating suspect and the harassment after taking him into custody but before questioning him that wasn't.
 

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tdylan said:
Forgive me, my knowledge of SWAT tactics comes solely from Hollywood movies. That said, how is barging into an unknown situation "option A?" What I'm saying is, these SWAT teams obviously don't know what they're getting into, because if they did, they would know it was a hoax, and not barge in to begin with. So they clearly don't know what's happening on the other side of the door. Let's assume that there is a legit threat on the other side. Shouldn't they investigate it before barging in? You know, to make sure the door isn't booby trapped with a homemade pipebomb, or something? I don't fault them responding to the call, but do they even bother to investigate the room that they are breaching before doing so? And if so, do they say something like:

"single target. sitting at some kind of console. probably controlling some UAV about to strike on a civilian population. We've gotta breach, NOW!"

If there were hostages previously not known about, wouldn't it be prudent to figure that out before barging in, startling the hostage taker, and potentially causing lives to be lost? If this "kick down the door before investigating what's on the other side" based on nothing more than a phone call is their go to tactic, I'm surprised we don't hear about innocent people getting shot to death more often by a SWAT team barging in on them while they were cooking, and being killed because "he's got a knife!"
The way that these go is someone calls in a fake situation so presumably, they have some information to go off of. Remember, these are trained professionals, I'm sure they were simply proceeding with the best plan possible given the information they had. I know nothing about SWAT tactics or the information they were given so I couldn't possibly judge how they performed their jobs.
 

Something Amyss

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These gamers are obviously faking it.

Crap, I forgot that only works with people the community has decided not to like.

MarsAtlas said:
I'm just waiting until this results in somebody getting injured or killed during a livestream. Then the police find the person, and they get thrown in jail for voluntary manslaughter or homocide. They won't think its a funny thing to do then.

Seriously, this is more dangerous than those idiots who trying doing 360 no-scopes in real life.
They may not find it funny, but it's unlikely to be a deterrent and it won't help anyone involved.

Granted, I have no problem seeing someone jailed for getting someone killed. It's just that it seems so hollow that one kid or two go to jail for something that's basically dicing with someone else's life for kicks.

Sight Unseen said:
Seriously? Why would someone think this is a good idea for a practical joke or a troll?
Seeing someone else scared or humilated combined with a lack of long-term thinking. At least, I hope that's the case. Whenever doxing comes up, someone usually suggests that it's done in part in hopes some jackass will go to their front door with a gun (and others treat it as an obvious joke even if there's a risk of that). I seriously hope the intent isn't "murder by cop" here.
 

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And nobody was killed again. Must have been because everyone all the livestreamers were white, eh?
Not even rumored members of the Crips with rap sheets that include murder! What racially motivated injustice!
 

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MarsAtlas said:
Zachary Amaranth said:
These gamers are obviously faking it.

Crap, I forgot that only works with people the community has decided not to like.
My god, you're right! Kootra is pulling a false flag! Kootra obviously trying to get more viewers, with the added benefit of postponing the competitive CS:GO match they were in. What a bastard, I hope she, I hope she... wait a minute...

*goes to watch the video, sees Kootra is a guy*

Nevermind, go home everybody, put your torches away.
I find your evidence compelling.

Come to think of it, I've had the cops called on me before. Good thing he is a man, or I could pull the "I've had the cops called on me and survived, so it's no big deal" thing. But since that's not the case, I guess I will have to consider this a tragedy.
 

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If only they were playing SWAT 4 instead of CS during the raid, I would have died a happy man.
 

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CrazyGirl17 said:
Who the hell thinks this is a good prank?!? They have ways of tracing calls, right? So the next time someone tries this, they get their asses tossed in jail.
From what I've heard, it's surprisingly easy to make yourself really hard to trace over the phone. Here's an interesting video on the subject.

Police Militarization meets Hacker Culture: Swatting[/youtube]
 

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tdylan said:
Forgive me, my knowledge of SWAT tactics comes solely from Hollywood movies. That said, how is barging into an unknown situation "option A?" What I'm saying is, these SWAT teams obviously don't know what they're getting into, because if they did, they would know it was a hoax, and not barge in to begin with. So they clearly don't know what's happening on the other side of the door. Let's assume that there is a legit threat on the other side. Shouldn't they investigate it before barging in? You know, to make sure the door isn't booby trapped with a homemade pipebomb, or something? I don't fault them responding to the call, but do they even bother to investigate the room that they are breaching before doing so? And if so, do they say something like:

"single target. sitting at some kind of console. probably controlling some UAV about to strike on a civilian population. We've gotta breach, NOW!"

If there were hostages previously not known about, wouldn't it be prudent to figure that out before barging in, startling the hostage taker, and potentially causing lives to be lost? If this "kick down the door before investigating what's on the other side" based on nothing more than a phone call is their go to tactic, I'm surprised we don't hear about innocent people getting shot to death more often by a SWAT team barging in on them while they were cooking, and being killed because "he's got a knife!"
The thing is that your never going to have perfect information, and unlike TV and such speed and simplicity is the usual key to success, both when it comes to crimes and crime prevention. SWAT teams are special units because they take on these high risk situations, because yes, they are going through a door where there would be a trap rigged, or hostages, or an ambush already in place. Stuff like this is why people should have more respect for the cops, and understand that in potentially dangerous situations sometimes mistakes happen.... and that's a big part of why SWATTING is so dangerous, because if these people doing the stream had fake guns or something to show off for their video, the SWAT team might have just dropped them out of hand, it would have been tragic, but when your responding to a high threat incident that has been called in, you don't give the other guys the benefit of the doubt, by the time you pause to say "drop your weapon" the guy could have already started firing.... high threat response being a little different than a normal response or dealing with a situation developing naturally, your already going in heavy because of a report of
a clear and present danger.

That said, I was never law enforcement, but I did have to do entry training (not that I was ever called upon to use it). One of those weird things the Casinos I worked for thought would look good on paper, so they had the police train some of us security mooks to do hard entry, using some of the hotel rooms as the example. Kind of useless for our job description given that we'd probably just send the real police in if we had serious doubts, but it was interesting at least. I know a bit about the tactics used, but that's not really relevant to the basic situation.

The part about this that actually has me wondering is what kinds of incidents are being called in that has a SWAT team going in heavy right from the beginning. I'll also mention that given that people doing these kinds of streams for thousand of people are attention junkies anyway, that I've also been quite suspicious that some of those "SWATTED" might have called the police on themselves, they are already probably computer savvy and would have planned to hide the call, the motive for doing it being the show and the E-fame of having had it happen.

In this particular incident it should be noted that SWAT teams tend to try and catch people by surprised, these guys seem to have "heard them coming" and "correctly guessed what was about to happen", and honestly that does make me a little suspicious, since for the most part the whole idea of going in heavy to begin with is to act quickly and take the guys by surprised, so if they say have hostages (as you mentioned) you can drop the people involved/take control quickly before they can threaten them. That speed is also why they are so dangerous, and why they might shoot someone believed to have a gun out of hand, making them a very dangerous "phrank". Basically hardened criminals, terrorists, etc... get taken down by surprised by SWAT teams and first responders all the time, that's kind of the point, and they work is why most places have them, yet these guys are detected by a bunch of dudes allegedly focused on their gameplay, streaming, and putting on a show and if I'm right their mics just happen to catch some of the noise?. I mean it could be dumb luck, or an unusually bad SWAT team, but honestly I confess to being a little suspicious. I'm surprised more people haven't thought of it (of course I might be missing something that clears them... not that anything is proven mind you, I just think it's a little odd).
 

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This is getting out of hand isnt it?
There are many problems with this whole thing, but I think part of it is that the SWAT or cops seem to have no idea about gaming in general.
Look at that clip, it's all over their face as they look at his computer, they have no idea what this guy is actually doing. Even when he tells them he is streaming they don't have a clue what that means, the guy asking is actually confused as to why people watch him.
Maybe it's time they brought a specialist or something with them? Someone who could take one look at the room and tell them this was just a gamer?

I get that they have to take things like this seriously when they get the call, but it might be an idea to at least get some basic knowledge about the gaming world and computers. Even though your job is mainly busting down doors and catching badguys.
 

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"This is not an online game," Stephens said. "We have real guns, real bullets and there is a potential there for some tragedy."
Oh come on, you should know better than to expect those morons to listen to you with that statement.
 

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kael013 said:
I'm getting a sarcastic vibe from this, so...

They busted into the room and found him (the guy they were told had hostages and had killed some) alone and unarmed with his hands already up. So naturally they get him on the ground and put a boot on his back as they handcuffed him while saying things like "************, don't you even move now". The guy with his boot on his back even looked right at the computer. All he had to do was walk over and investigate what was up on it (or just ask the suspect, like they did later) and they most likely would have come to the conclusion that [i/]maaaybe[/i] something fishy was up with the whole situation. But no, they all hang around and report in and shit. Then there's the "What about this is funny to you?" thing. Yeah, the guy is kneeling there handcuffed and is being completely passive, let's harass him! The police's initial reaction while breaching was entirely appropriate. Even handcuffing the guy and questioning him was appropriate (seeing as how that's standard procedure and stuff). It was the insults and roughness to a cooperating suspect and the harassment after taking him into custody but before questioning him that wasn't.
are you saying that someone who looks innocent must be innocent?

you do realise they have guns small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and explosive devices which can go off with the press of a button

if you want a possible shooter to have a chance at shooting you then yeah i agree let him turn around and give you a hug

you don't really understand just how tense these situations are, they have a situation in which they could easily shoot an innocent person on bursting in, hell they could DIE on entry because of a trap and they're still in danger until they get back to their base it'd be pretty understandable to assume they don't have the luxury of being nice
 

kael013

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Riotguards said:
are you saying that someone who looks innocent must be innocent?
No, I'm saying that insulting and antagonizing the suspect before questioning him might not be the wisest thing to do. Also, the guy wasn't resisting, wasn't yelling at them, nothing. He was completely passive unless he was instantly obeying their commands, just letting the SWAT do their jobs. As such, the behavior they directed at him was unprofessional and inappropriate in my eyes.

Then there was the lack of interest over what he was doing at the computer. He could have been wiring a bomb into it for all they knew, so I think a quick investigation of the PC would have been pretty high up on the priority list and that investigation would have led them to the truth about their suspect before that one guy harassed him. That's it. Everything else they did was the right thing to do.
 

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Who the hell would be insane enough to find this funny? Did the joker escape the batman comics while no one was looking?