LAPD says teens ages 13 to 16 motivated by racism were behind 'swattings' of BLM leader
The Los Angeles Police Department said Friday that a group of teenagers motivated by racial hatred is responsible for two separate “swatting” incidents at the home of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles leader Melina Abdullah.
The incidents, which led to LAPD surrounding the home of one of their most prominent critics, were highly controversial — and the police were heavily criticized for their responses.
The teens, ages 13 to 16, were connected via the online chat platform Discord and are also suspected in 30 other false emergency threats across the country since July 2020, targeting “other online persons, video gamers, activists, schools, airports, houses of worship, entertainment venues and memorial parks,” the LAPD said.
Police will present cases supporting charges of criminal conspiracy and creating a false emergency against three of the teens to local prosecutors, they said. One of the three lives in New York and another in Ohio, while a third — an American citizen — is living abroad in Cyprus, police said. They were not identified.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-12/lapd-say-group-of-teens-motivated-by-racial-hate-behind-swatting-of-blmla-leader
= new reply since forum marked as read
