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On April 27, 2020, a fatal swatting incident occurred in Sumner County, Tennessee. The incident followed an extortion attempt throughout March and April 2020 in which Shane Sonderman and a group of co-conspirators attempted to obtain the Twitter handle "@Tennessee" belonging to 60-year-old Mark Herring.
The swatting was organized in an attempt to force him to give up his Twitter handle "@tennessee". Shane Sonderman was sentenced to five years in prison for the swatting, and ordered to pay a $250,000 fine. A 16-year-old in the United Kingdom was also involved, but they could not be extradited or identified due to their age as a juvenile. [51] [52]
Sorrenti said that the slurs in question were images of past harassment directed against her and that she had been banned "for openly talking about the abuse [she receives]". She moved to YouTube to stream during the ban. [14] [27] Sorrenti joined Twitter in December 2020, and amassed over 100,000 followers on the platform.
In May 2020, Mr Tomlinson’s home was swatted for the first time when two police officers turned up “ready to go” at his home late one night demanding to know where “the children” were.
A Tennessee man reportedly died of a heart attack after police, responding to a swatting call, told him to come out of the house with his hands up during an incident in 2020. That danger has not ...
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This is a list of people reported killed by non-military law enforcement officers in the United States in April 2020, whether in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer ...
The FBI describes “swatting” as a prank designed to draw an emergency law enforcement response to a hoax victim, often creating a situation where a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team ...