The home of War Room host Steve Bannon was SWATTED and swarmed by fully armed police on July 8th. The caller had actually called a crisis hotline and wrongly reported that they remained in the Capitol Hill house of the former senior consultant to President Donald Trump and had actually shot somebody.
Streets surrounding the house, which is near the Capitol and Supreme Court, were closed down for approximately an hour.
“Police initially told The Washington Post that they had encountered a person who claimed to be armed and who appeared to be suffering from a mental health crisis, but they found no gun and no one injured. A D.C. police spokeswoman later said someone had called a crisis hotline and reported that a man inside the rowhouse in the 200 block of A Street NE had shot someone and had a firearm,” the Washington Post reported.
A ‘SWAT-ting’ describes somebody filing a false report of a severe criminal activity to draw police to a specific area. There has actually been a number of deaths and injuries from authorities shootings throughout the trick raids.
As Bannon re-entered his home, he told an NBC News reporter that the police had been “terrific.”
“The police were terrific,” Steve Bannon says after a massive police presence cleared his street. @DCPoliceDept just provided a briefing saying there was a false 911 call of a shooting on this block. MPD did not name Bannon’s house as a target. pic.twitter.com/VhBvGcrMi1
— Liz Brown-Kaiser (@lizbrownkaiser) July 8, 2022
The Post report specifies that “it was not immediately clear if Bannon was home at the time of the incident. Jeffery Carroll, an assistant D.C. police chief in charge of the homeland security bureau, said officers walked through the rowhouse and spoke with those inside to ensure it was safe.”
In 2011, California State Senator Ted Lieu presented a bill to increase charges for knocking. His own household house was whacked quickly after he did so.
Four years later on, in 2015, ‘SWAT-ting’ ended up being a federal criminal offense after a bipartisan bill sponsored by Democrat Rep. Katherine Clark and Republican Rep. Patrick Meehan went through Congress.
Naturally, Clark was subsequently swatted in retaliation.
H/T Timcast
