Armed officers swarm Stephen K. Bannon's house after false report

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Heavily armed police swarmed around the Capitol Hill rowhouse where former Trump White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon lives after receiving a false report that a man with a gun was inside and had shot someone, @phscoop reports

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Armed officers swarm Stephen K. Bannon’s house after false report
Police were falsely told a man with a gun was inside and had shot someone.
11:24 AM · Jul 8, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/07/08/police-block-streets-capitol/

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Heavily armed police on Friday swarmed around the Capitol Hill rowhouse where former Trump White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon lives after receiving a false report that a man with a gun was inside and had shot someone, according to authorities.

Police shut down streets near the Supreme Court and the Capitol for about one hour, prompting fears of an active shooter. About 12:30 p.m., police reopened the streets after determining that there was no shooting, no weapon, no threat and no victim.

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 spokeswoman said that call appears to have been a “swatting” attempt, a practice in which someone calls in a false report of an emergency or a crisis to draw police to a particular address or person.

Efforts to reach Bannon and his attorneys were not immediately successful Friday afternoon, and police said they did not know if the person who called the hotline knew it was Bannon’s residence. The call did not come from Bannon’s home.

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I will keep my comments to myself, because I know some here would not agree. I also don't want to get banned.

[RockRaven]

1. Swatting gets people killed. Not amusing. nt

[Hekate]

3. True enough

[Leghorn21]

5. Yep

Deeply uncool and very very dangerous for the entire damn neighborhood

NO SWATTING

EVER

[Hekate]

2. Sorry for his troubles. Hope no doors were smashed in, and no flash-bangs set off

[tulipsandroses]

4. What was that on Melanie's jacket?

Some people don’t get my sympathy. Yeah plenty will disagree with me. Oh well

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. I agree.

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

6. No need to mention your comments. I'm sure they match mine.

[regnaD kciN]

7. The story, as written, makes no sense...

…it was only a swatting attempt – yet they encountered someone who claimed to be armed and who was undergoing a mental health crisis? The two announcements are contradictory.

[usonian]

9. Some sites are down this morning, now PM.

Must be an Amazon or similar outage. My fav techie site is not responding, and all that the others say is that 25% of Canada's internet is down, thanks to Rogers. Go figure!!

As for your comments, I end up posting maybe 25% of what I compose.

I am swatting ants today, not rats. I don't taunt junkyard dogs, Chinese tanks, nor site admins. Composed a photo essay on beer boy. Still holding back. OK, it's in humor.

If I am banned, I left a compendium of my best posts here.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216900254

[Iggo]

10. Swatting ain't cool.

That is all.

[sarisataka]

11. I have no problem commenting

Swatting is wrong. It can get the target or another innocent person killed. Anyone who does it should be prosecuted.


If that gets me banned I won't cry.

[HAB911]

12. thoughts

[Baitball Blogger]

13. A few weeks from now we're going to find out that it was a valid report and

Bannon ate the victim to hide the evidence.

[Nevilledog]

14. Seems likely.

[asiliveandbreathe]

15. Stevie be too stressed for court in the coming weeks....needs another delay...

Hey Stevie "NOT today"...Doug and Emu....ain't gonna work!!!!

[BannonsLiver]

16. Hmm.