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> For that case, all I think we can do is treat the swatters as people committing aggravated kidnapping or even attempted murder. Absolutely. In fact - if swat
by eric_h 10y ago
> For that case, all I think we can do is treat the swatters as people committing aggravated kidnapping or even attempted murder.
Absolutely. In fact - if swatting results in the death of a person, then the swatter should be charged with first degree murder.
The problem, however, is that the swatters are not always in the US, so even identifying the swatter can be quite difficult; let alone extraditing them.
Thus, the swat teams also need to, in one way or another, tone down their violent, no-knock raids.
- jessaustin 10y agoIf I told an easily-angered person that her spouse had intimate relations with someone I didn't like, could I be charged with the resulting murder? Why don't the police have agency?
- Pxtl 10y agoIntent matters. The intent was to send a group of dangerous and heavily armed men in to detain an innocent person. That's aggravated kidnapping. In common law, if somebody is killed in the commission of a violent felony even if the death was unplanned, it's "felony murder". In most of the USA, "felony murder" is first-degree murder.