Swatting is calling the police saying the person in question is holding someone at gun point. The goal is to have police armed with rifles break down the door and storm the building.
It doesn’t take much for police or the people inside to get shot and possibly killed during raids. Many innocent people have been severely harmed. Infamously, an officer threw a flash bang (an explosive grenade with burning magnesium) through a window into a crib with a child in it. Another fired shots that went through the wall and killed a woman in another apartment. At least one police officer was shot and killed by an innocent home owner in legitimate self-defense.
This isn’t something to take lightly. Whether it not it was the caller’s intent, they tried to get someone killed.
It doesn’t take much for police or the people inside to get shot and possibly killed during raids. Many innocent people have been severely harmed. Infamously, an officer threw a flash bang (an explosive grenade with burning magnesium) through a window into a crib with a child in it. Another fired shots that went through the wall and killed a woman in another apartment. At least one police officer was shot and killed by an innocent home owner in legitimate self-defense.
This isn’t something to take lightly. Whether it not it was the caller’s intent, they tried to get someone killed.