Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting
Two things can obviously be true at the same time: that &quot;police officers&quot;† are improperly keyed up as if they&#x27;re shock troops preparing for a battle, and that calling in a false report with the hope that it will provoke an armed response is effectively an attempt at homicide.<p>To me, the (standard) overreaction by the police makes arguments minimizing what the gamer did here even harder. Unless you live under a rock, you&#x27;re aware of the controversy about armed police response in the US. Surely this gamer knew that, and called a fake report in anyways --- one involving an active shooter and a hostage.<p>I&#x27;m with Ken &quot;Popehat&quot; White: what the gamer did here is homicide. We can argue about the degree.<p>† <i>really, in almost all cases in the US, &quot;assault officers&quot;, and we should separate the two concepts, stop hiring new assault officers, and start hiring a new class of less-armed police officers</i><p><i>Later</i><p>It turns out there&#x27;s already a concept in US law that captures this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Depraved-heart_murder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Depraved-heart_murder</a>