#swatting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #swatting, aggregated by home.social.
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#Buttigieg #SCOTUSblog #CPS #swatting
"Pete Buttigieg, the Supreme Court, and the Fourth Amendment
In late June, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg described in a Substack post how he had endured every parent’s nightmare. Following a knock at the door of his home in Michigan, he encountered a police officer with an investigator from Child Protective Services. They asked to talk with him, and he invited them into his house.
(. . .)
According to The Washington Post, the Michigan attorney general’s office is now reviewing this matter to understand how its investigation, spurred by an anonymous tipster, got so far out of hand and whether this was a politically-motivated attack to harass Buttigieg and his family. Nevertheless, based on Supreme Court authority on the Fourth Amendment, this all could have been avoided in the first place. I wanted to use this column to explain why.
(. . .)
https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/08/pete-buttigieg-the-supreme-court-and-the-fourth-amendment/
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KGUN: Tucson man files claim alleging deputies ignored swatting warnings before shooting left him paralyzed. “A Tucson man who was left paralyzed after being shot by Pima County sheriff’s deputies during a response to what his attorneys say was a false ‘swatting’ call has filed a Notice of Claim against Pima County, Sheriff Chris Nanos and numerous sheriff’s employees, alleging deputies ignored […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/kgun-tucson-man-files-claim-alleging-deputies-ignored-swatting-warnings-before-shooting-left-him-paralyzed/ -
Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115506
#HackerNews #swatting #policeincident #gaminglawsuit #justice
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De horror - we hebben er weer een nieuw fenomeen bij:
Swatting is overgewaaid uit Amerika. Er wordt een valse melding gemaakt van een levensgevaarlijke situatie zoals een bommelding of gijzeling. Doel is om daarmee een SWAT-team, een arrestatieteam, naar een onschuldig slachtoffer te sturen en die hiermee te intimideren.
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Many of you may have heard of #swatting and considering how many #queer folks are on here I wouldn’t be surprised if someone seeing this has been a victim or know someone who has been a victim of such an attack. Here is a new tactic - using #CPS to inflict maximum pain to queer families. #PeteButtigieg and his family were targeted with a fake CPS report and led to him being separated from his 4 year old twins while the case was being evaluated (and children being interviewed in the absence of parents). This is a horrific new tactic and I hope queer families learn about this so they are not caught flat-footed. Unfortunate post but important, I hope this seen by queer families like mine.
#swatting #queer #cps #petebuttigieg #lgbtq #lgbt #homophobia #gay #bi #lesbian #pride #USpol
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#PeteButtigieg #swatting
"Someone decided to hurt our family this week. I’m furious, and I want to share what happened."A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family
"Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone."
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📬 VPN beim Gaming: Nützlicher Schutz oder teure Placebo-Lösung?
#Datenschutz #Doxing #Gaming #ISPDrosselung #Ping #Swatting #Valorant #VPN https://sc.tarnkappe.info/8042a1 -
The Register: Minecraft-streaming gran swatted while raising cash for grandson’s cancer care. “An 82-year-old grandmother who livestreams her Minecraft gameplay to raise money for her grandson’s cancer treatment faced a potentially deadly swatting attempt this week. ‘Dozens’ of armed police officers stormed the home of Sue Jacquot, known online as GrammaCrackers, on May 18 while she was […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/24/the-register-minecraft-streaming-gran-swatted-while-raising-cash-for-grandsons-cancer-care/ -
I'm asking you all - how the heck would you react if stranger men that you've rarely engaged with online (if ever), resulted in you/your family being swatted. I'm asking how you'd react, if that happened to you & the perpetrators lied about it for over a year. I'm asking how you'd feel, being ganged up by a bunch of men & a handful of clueless women, because two misogynistic BFF men decided to make you a target because you called out their abuses in a public arena when you were already facing injustices by complete fucking strangers(cops & racists).
I'm asking how you'd feel, if you were knowingly targeted by cowardly men here for over a year & even targeted again, AFTER the cops they sent had to do walk of fucking shame to their cruisers for wasting more tax monies for no crime. I'm asking why it is fucking OK to many of you white people in tech, for you cowards to keep supporting people who committed these blatantly hateful & targeted abuses on me & my family!
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Social media crimes: Tyler Barriss
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-tyler-barriss/
#socialMediaCrimes #gaming #gamers #swatting #blackmail #cyberpsychology #psychology #onlineBehaviour #humanBehaviour #onlineSafety #socialMedia #onlineForums #identity #Cybersecurity #onlineSecurity #negativepid
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Social media crimes: Tyler Barriss
https://negativepid.blog/social-media-crimes-tyler-barriss/
#socialMediaCrimes #gaming #gamers #swatting #blackmail #cyberpsychology #psychology #onlineBehaviour #humanBehaviour #onlineSafety #socialMedia #onlineForums #identity #Cybersecurity #onlineSecurity #negativepid
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Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem unaware or don't care that their guy swatted me) - severely triggered my PTSD on being disbelieved when I tried reporting being SAed as a teen. I was bullied & ostracized for trying to report SA. People believed the rapist & not me. It brought up the same angry, disappointed & people are fucked feelings.
I had almost left Mastodon completely, due to that.The Epstein Files triggered both of those hella horrible life memories, again. I'd never been swatted before Chad Ohman chose to send that racial violence to my home, shortly after my Dad died. That night was full of unnecessary police traumas too. I'm sick of people pretending to care & I find out they don't, when shit hits the fan.
I don't need fake support. I don't need cowardly folks. That shit ends up hurting me in the long run. I don't need any fucking devil's advocates either. Go hang out with Satan.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #Trauma #PTSD #MstdnCA #DecolonizeYourMind #Swatting #RacialViolence #Bullying #Canadian #Misogyny #DevilsAdvocate
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I got SWAT'ed and handcuffed LIVE while Linux development streaming! // René Rebe
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"Violent threats, once concentrated in Washington, are increasing against local public servants, new data shows
Matt McCaffery was a relatively unknown GOP chair in suburban Pennsylvania when police showed up at his door last year after an anonymous tip accused the Marine veteran of holding his family hostage — a swatting incident meant to terrorize him and his family just hours after he endorsed Kamala Harris for president.
'If it could happen to me, small-town Matt McCaffery, it can happen to you,' said the former chairman of the Upper Merion Republican Committee.
The hoax call was just one of nearly 2,000 records of threats to local officials identified over the past decade in new data from the Impact Project and the Public Service Alliance. CBS News received exclusive access to the dataset, dubbed the 'Security Map,' ahead of its public release. It compiles more than a decade of cases from court filings, news reports and academic databases.
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Two juveniles charged after participating in 'new and alarming' TikTok trend in Brown County, ( #cincinnati rural burbs) #Ohio, where they used artificial intelligence to make false 911 calls about home invasions. The calls triggered emergency responses from authorities.
#AI #Crime #technology #TikTok #news #Swatting
https://www.wlwt.com/article/two-juveniles-charged-tiktok-trend-brown-county/68817344 -
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said Tuesday that Kenyon Colemen was found armed in a wooded area in Humble after deputies responded to a "possible fake/swatting call." The sheriff's office now says that call was unrelated.
#Crime #HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #HarrisCountySheriffEdGonzalez #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #Humble #KenyonColemen #Swatting
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A man in Humble was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly shooting at Harris County Sheriff's Office deputies who responded to a possible “fake/swatting call," according to Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
#Crime #HarrisCounty #LawEnforcement #Local #News #HarrisCountySheriffEdGonzalez #HarrisCountySheriffSOffice #HumbleTexas #Swatting
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Even if you aren't a #WhiteSupremacist #Karen, it's time to report incidents to ICE...
...at every factory coming in to the #US right now. All the factories #Trump wanted to be there most likely require #foreign #labour to fill the #expertize gap - for now.
It'll take years to train US #workers to meet the same requirements... It would be a crying shame... if ICE was inundated with reports at all those new shiny factories.
Wake up, babe, the new #swatting just dropped. It's called #icing.
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#Judges recount #DeathThreats, '#swatting' after rulings against #Trump
A group of #FederalJudges took the rare step of speaking out about receiving death threats & mysterious pizza deliveries in the name of a judge's #murdered son after they blocked parts of Trump's agenda.
"It was disturbing, it was frightening," Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island said.
#law #StochasticTerrorism #DomesticViolentExtremists
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judges-recount-death-threats-swatting-after-rulings-against-trump-2025-07-31/ -
Smashing Security podcast #425: Call of Duty: From pew-pew to pwned https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-425/ #SmashingSecurity #Vulnerability #vulnerability #Lawℴ #swatting #Malware #Podcast #police #Scam
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Romanian Citizen Pleads Guilty to ‘Swatting’ Numerous Members of Congress, Churches, and a Former U.S. President:
