【】Tweet may have been deleted
David Hogg's family home was swatted on Tuesday.。
Someone called the Broward Sheriff's Office in Florida on the Parkland survivor's home, claiming that there was a hostage situation at the house. According to the local ABC affiliate, Coral Springs Fire Rescue arrived to find that the call was a prank.。
SEE ALSO:Inmate tweeting from jail calls himself an 'eGod' and threatens to swat again。"A SWAT team responded and cleared the home," Broward County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Gina Carter told USA Today. "We are investigating who made the call." 。
Thanks for signing up!。
Hogg and his mom weren't home -- they're in Washington, D.C. to accept the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights award. He graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday and is touring the country with other Parkland students to advocate for stricter gun control laws.。
Tweet may have been deleted 。 Swatting is a vicious prank where people falsely report hostage situations to 911, sending SWAT teams and other emergency response services to storm the homes of unsuspecting people. It's a dangerous trend in the streaming and online gaming community. In December, a swatting incident after a 。Call of Duty。
dispute led to the death of a man in Wichita, Kansas when he was fatally shot by a police officer. The victim wasn't involved in the dispute, but he lived at the targeted address. 。
Hogg found out about the swatting from a friend. "I think it's really a distraction from what we're trying to fix here, which is the massive gun violence epidemic in this country," Hogg told the local ABC affiliate.。
He said it's "evidence of the fact of how many people are trying to stop us from what we're trying to do, which is stop these kids from dying."。
Featured Video For You 。
Featured Video For You。These celebrities are getting behind March for Our Lives。
相关文章
New Zealand designer's photo series celebrates the elegance of aging
Not only is age nothin’ but a number -- it can be a asset when it comes to style.。 That’2024-11-21NVIDIA just released the most powerful GPU of all time
Nvidia just announced the Titan V, the most powerful graphics processing unit (GPU) of all time. Thi2024-11-21'Life is Strange' is coming to your smartphone
Hella badass duo Max Caulfield and Chloe Price are going to hang out in your pocket soon, with the r2024-11-21Twitter has people timing songs perfectly for New Year's Eve midnight
Perfectly timing your New Year's Eve midnight song is an art that requires intense track analysis (i2024-11-21Balloon fanatic Tim Kaine is also, of course, very good at harmonica
You know the old saying: the people want a president they can drink a beer with and they also want a2024-11-21- As temperatures drop and the time of sunset nears closer and closer to mid-afternoon, the urge to sw2024-11-21
最新评论