Family of Stoneman Douglas student advocate David Hogg 'swatted' at home

[DonViejo]

Hogg was not home at time of incident

By Jeff Tavss - Executive Producer
Posted: 9:41 AM, June 05, 2018
Updated: 9:59 AM, June 05, 2018


CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The family of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was "swatted" Tuesday morning, causing police to respond to their Parkland home.

A call came into the Broward Sheriff's Office claiming a hostage situation at the home.

Coral Springs Fire Rescue arrived at the scene to find there was no hostage situation and the call was a prank.

Hogg was not home at the time of the incident and is currently in Washington, DC with his mother to accept the RFK Human Rights award.

In a phone call with Local 10, Hogg reacted to the massive police presence at his home following the prank call.

"I think it's really a distraction from what we're trying to fix here," Hogg told Liane Morejon. "Which is the massive gun violence epidemic in this country.

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[Lars39]

1. I hope the pursue charges against whoever called that in.

[sdfernando]

2. Oh, I'm sure they will find out who did it...

and bill them for the cost as well.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. Prank?

Seems like, if law enforcement was involved, it was more than just a prank.

[B2G]

6. Hogg called it a prank too.

I don't think he understands how serious this could have been.

[Solly Mack]

4. If your goal is to get an armed law enforcement response

where confusion - all but guaranteed by the deception - could turn ugly - are those guilty of swatting ever charged with attempted murder?

Swatting is the deliberate attempt to set up a situation where police, the actual SWAT team, and even the FBI, descends on a person creating the circumstances for possible gunfire and the risk of injury or death.

I don't believe the person doing the swatting is somehow unaware of this risk.

I think that's pretty much their intentions - to cause physical harm.

[samir.g]

5. Fire was on scene first?

That's bizarre.

[ffr]

7. The degree to which desperate RW cronies will go to terrorize these victims is sick!

A hoax phone call sent police to the home of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg after the NRA, Republicans, and right-wing media attacked him for months.

A hoax phone call led police to the home of Stoneman Douglas High student David Hogg in what could have been a disastrous event. Hogg has been attacked by the NRA, Republican politicians, and right-wing media relentlessly after he became a gun safety advocate.

The Broward County Sheriff’s Office in Florida said police were called to Hogg’s home with a phony claim that someone broke into the house. The caller said that the person had an AR-15 rifle and was holding the family hostage. - Share Blue

Republicans and their followers are a disease and we should look at them and their affiliation with such acts as such.

[KelleyKramer]

8. Didn't someone get shot from one of these calls?

Seems like a few months ago there was one of these fake calls and somebody got shot when the police responded