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Yikes! Nicki Minaj Falls Victim to This Latest LA Crime Spree
The 'Super Bass' rapper was once again the target to this ultra annoying and common criminal trend.
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How ‘Swatting’ Led to Four Black Harvard Students Being Held at Gunpoint by Campus Police
The incident was the result hoax 911 call that led police to believe there was a threat in the student's dorm room.
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Armed Campus Police in Texas Bombard Black Student’s Dorm Room After Classmates File False Report
Lashondra Evans can’t stop thinking about all that could have gone wrong the night campus police showed up at her daughter’s dorm room. It had been only a few weeks since 17-year-old Christin Evans’ parents saw her away to college. She had been recruited to cheer at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas,…
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White Supremacists Admit to Targeting Minority Communities and Journalists in False ‘Swatting’ Reports to Law Enforcement
A member of a white supremacist group accused of targeting journalists, activists and politicians for harassment and threats of violence admitted to his involvement in federal court in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, and investigators found that the whole thing may have started with a white student trying to get out of going to class. The Washington…
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Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Who Plotted 'Swatting' Attack on a Cabinet Member
In recent years, white nationalists have repeatedly been called one of the biggest threats to domestic life. In response, President Trump has repeatedly downplayed that threat. Now that a member of his own cabinet has been targeted by white nationalists, you would think he might reconsider his stance. Who are we kidding though? CBS News…
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Virginia Man Charged in 'Swatting' Case Found to Have Neo-Nazi Ties
“Swatting,” if you’re unaware, is a prank where some calls in a fake emergency in a targeted effort to generate a huge response from law enforcement. It’s never funny, it’s always dangerous and apparently it’s being weaponized by racists. NBC News reports that John William Kirby Kelley, a 19-year-old man from Virginia, was charged with…
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A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist Was ‘Swatted’ but Survived. Here’s What He Has to Say About That
Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, was laying in his bed in Bowie, Md., early on Sunday morning when he woke up to a phone call. It was the police. The police told him they received a 911 call that he had murdered his wife. They instructed him to come…
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Unarmed Kansas Man Killed by Police in ‘Swatting’ Prank Over $1.50 ‘Call of Duty’ Bet
A 25-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the “swatting” death of a Kansas man who was shot and killed by police Friday, possibly caught in the middle of a low-level gaming wager gone horribly wrong. Twenty-eight-year-old Andrew Finch of Wichita, Kan., was killed after police responded to a false report of a murder…