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

[LudwigPastorius]

Source: WPLG Local 10 Miami

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. - The family of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was "swatted" Tuesday morning, prompting deputies 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 with his mother to accept the RFK Human Rights award.



Read more: https://www.local10.com/news/parkland-school-shooting/family-of-stoneman-douglas-advocate-david-hogg-swatted-at-home

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Some gun-humping MAGA scumbag was hoping the cops would kill David Hogg.

Oh, and it wasn't a "prank" it was a felony.

[Adrahil]

1. That "prank" was attempted murder. nt

[Hav]

2. Yes, not a prank

It should be treated as more than that when people already died in these kind of incidents.
Who's the civil terrorist again?

[appalachiablue]

3. How awful for David out of town & his family. A scary country at times now..

[LudwigPastorius]

4. It takes a special kind of diseased mind to...

try to send a bunch of armed men storming into the home of a teenager who probably has PTSD.

[appalachiablue]

5. Quite serious, dedicated & growing fast it seems.

Also something to 'live for' apparently.

[question everything]

6. I learned a new word: "swatted"

One can only wonder how come it is not more common

[LudwigPastorius]

10. It is common enough.

This worst case scenario happened in January.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/30/us/kansas-swatting-death-affidavit/index.html


The criminal who sent the cops to Hogg’s residence were probably hoping for the same outcome.

[mountain grammy]

18. New to me too.

I'm on overload.

[Initech]

25. Swatting: how is this still a thing?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210391861

[homegirl]

7. Typical

Trumpster Thinking (?)

[poli-junkie]

8. Can't they trace the call????

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Yeah, what about that?

[MicaelS]

13. Not if the person was using Caller ID spoofing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing

[Bengus81]

22. Oh...they found all the persons responsible in the Wichita swatting call..........

Those came from out on the west coast if I remember right.

[Sunlei]

35. They got the 2015 Nevada asshole too.

[IronLionZion]

26. A lot of people serving prison time who made that same assumption

[LudwigPastorius]

14. I honestly don't know.

It is incredibly easy to fake the caller ID information of a phone call.

I don’t know if the phone company has a way of finding out the originating location of a faked call. They probably do, but that means they would have to keep records of every call made in the event that the cops serve them a warrant for a specific one.

[NickB79]

19. Are there still cheap prepaid phones around?

Buy one with cash and toss it afterwards.

[xor]

33. Even then, I'm pretty sure the police could determine where the phone was sold

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and then go back to look at security footage of the person buying the phone.

[IronLionZion]

20. Law Enforcement and phone companies can get around caller ID spoofing

they have a way to trace the call and will likely investigate this as the serious crime it is.

People have died in swatting pranks before and the callers have been prosecuted for it.

Here are 3 assholes who were charged in a similar incident recently where someone died.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/three-including-intended-victim-charged-kansas-swatting-death-n876946

[Wellstone ruled]

27. Yes they can

unless the caller is using a spoof app.

[Sunlei]

34. no APPs don't save people anymore-the phone 'dials' the call not the APP

[Wellstone ruled]

36. Yes the phone dials the number,

but how many different VOIP addresses does it travel through before it hits the final. Interesting.

[cannabis_flower]

28. If I was going to do something like that..

and I wouldn't, I would use a courtesy phone at a hotel I wasn't registered at, or a pay phone if I knew where there still was one. I do recall seeing a pay phone a couple of months ago, it's probably still there.

[Decoy of Fenris]

29. Yes, assuming the call is made from a normal land/cell line.

If the call came from a burner phone, a pay phone or a computer, if the Swatter knows what they're doing, the chance of a trace is unlikely.

Given that swatting tends to occur more by younger perps, I'm inclined to believe the call would come through a computer on an internet phone app through a proxy, followed by a soft wipe of the relevant data and IP from the dialing computer. If that's the case, I'd be somewhat surprised if the cops find them. Not impossible, but hard.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

31. They have the technology now to find anyone even if using burner phone.

They will find this gun--humper, as these guys are never all that bright. I just worry about David and his family. He has a younger sister. But I do know that they have had the home security system up-graded.

It stuns me how much these yahoos are threatened by a teen age boy who is still finishing up his school year, trying to put the images of the slaughter behind him and deal with all of the emotions of what transpired there. All of the kids there are getting counseling. It's just so raw. And with the Sante Fe shooting in TX, this was like ripping the wounds open all over again. I feel sorry for all of these children. They were not planning on being thrust into the bright lights of critical media. The PFSD is setting in already,

[bitterross]

11. His dad is a retired FBI agent. I bet someone is taking this seriously.

I hope, really hope, his dad still has friends at the FBI who will help find the people who did this. I'm sure they can work out some way of having jurisdiction to investigate. I bet something in the call crossed state lines and made it okay for the Feds to get involved.

[George II]

24. republican or Democratic, despite what the numbskull in Washington thinks, FBI people.....

....stick together. They'll find that scumbag and make his/her life miserable.

[Julian Englis]

12. Agreed--at best, this was a very illegal & dangerous form of harassment

At worst it was an attempt to try harm or kill these people. Either way, it’s no prank. It’s is a very serious crime.

[RandiFan1290]

15. Here is what it looks like

If you have dogs this is a death sentence for them.

[ffr]

16. They'll be caught, just like Breitbart was.

They're not bright. They're just desperate domestic terrorists.

[gopiscrap]

17. hope they nail the fucking

gun humping asshole(s) who did this!!!

[Bengus81]

21. Good thing he wasn't at home and living in Wichita.....

He'd be DEAD and the cop would be off the hook for ANY charge by the DA's office.

[George II]

23. I hope they find that fucker and prosecute.

[Initech]

30. These crimes are attempted murder and should be treated as such.

[rwsanders]

32. Just realized something though, I believe the police are highly complicit also...

Considering how high profile David is right now, you'd think that the police would be swinging by occasionally to make sure that no one is surveilling the home or otherwise plotting harm or vandalism. His home should have been well known.
This reminds me of the realization I came to some years ago that if the FBI had spent as much time protecting Martin Luther King as they did trying to investigate and destroy him, we'd be a better country right now.