Deadly ‘swatting’ hoaxes and the dangerous conditioning of cops

“Sometimes a rifle really is just a pellet gun. Sometimes a hostage situation is a prank. Sometimes a dispatcher gets it wrong. And sometimes a man ‘reaching for his waistband’ is just trying to pull up his pants.  But these stories also show that what the police claim to have seen isn’t what happened.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2018/01/04/deadly-swatting-hoaxes-and-the-dangerous-conditioning-of-cops/