SCOTUS Justice’s Home Targeted in Swatting Call

Kenny Holston/The New York Times / via REUTERS Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home was the target of a swatting call on Wednesday night, police said. In audio of the incident obtained by freelance journalist Andrew Leyden, the dispatcher relays the call about gunshots being fired, while noting that it may be a swatting attempt. Swatting is the reporting of nonexistent violent crime, usually to stir up an actual violent situation involving responding law enforcement or a SWAT team. “Units responding to suspicious noise, be advised we have not been able to get an answer on callback to the complainant’s phone number,” the dispatcher says, noting the caller listed an address belonging to a “high-priority resident” of Fairfax County. “Unknown if it’s going to be a swatting situation.” Read more at The Daily Beast.

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