![]() ![]() ![]() He went from 50 followers to 2.8k in on the same stream and his chat being spammed with homophobia and racist slurs. But my friend group have been having some problems with someone raiding our Discord servers and its now moved to Twitch, the first target of whom one of my younger friends (he's just turned 15). So I am a mod on my friends stream, he averages around 5-15 per stream. Thanks to /u/iTruthful and Conceptional for the art! Clip Contest: November 4th - 18th AMA: Previously: Certified Ergonomic Specialist and an Occupational Therapist By posting to /r/Twitch, you accept these rules and accept that subreddit moderators reserve the right to remove posts at their discretion.No Memes, Set up, or Art post submissions.Ensure there isn't a megathread for your topic.Don’t post in a language other than English.Don’t post a link post (has exceptions).Don’t post without an informative title.Don’t create a post that’s unrelated to Twitch.Don’t post inquiring on a pending, late, or missing payment.Don’t post inquiring on a partnership application.Don’t post regarding twitch support responses.Don’t post regarding reporting an account.Don’t post regarding an account suspension outside of the permitted Ban Discussion Guidelines.Surveys must follow our Survey Guidelines.Don't post a link to a YouTube video, social media account, blog, or similar website outside the Advertisement Guidelines.Don’t post third party advertisements, without permission.Don’t post a account name / link related to promoting a page.Don't post non-productive complaints about Twitch.No racism, sexism, homophobia, or other hate-based speech.Don't call out others in a negative manner.Don't break Twitch’s ToS or Community Guidelines.Don't encourage others to break the subreddit rules.Thankfully, the police knew to check rather than responding in force again.We encourage folks to use the new Reddit design for the Collections feature that houses our Events & Archives. This time, the lie was that he was despondent and suicidal over the danger he had exposed his family to. A few hours later, the attacker tried again, calling the same police department and pretending to be a member of Peters’ family. However, the situation was not quite over. And then the tone shifted as soon as I said ‘I’m streaming on Twitch.TV.’” I said ‘I stream on Twitch.TV, I’m being Swatted, and someone probably prank-called this’. “When we were all laying down, I spoke out. I was going upstairs, and before I knew it, my face was on a tile on the ground, hands wide open and a bunch of police officers with assault rifles.”Īlthough St Cloud police confirmed that Peters was the first Swatting target the city had seen, the officers were aware of the concept, so he was able to defuse the situation. “My channel’s not crazy big, like some of these other mainstream streamers. “There’s no possible persons who I can think would do something like this to me … I’ve seen this happen to other streamers, I just never thought I would be the one to get randomly targeted. Speaking to the Guardian the day after the attack, Peters said he had no idea why he was targeted. I don’t give a shit about what you have against me, or what I did to you. They could have been shot, they could have died. I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you. Swat teams in the past have shot and killed a man who called a suicide hotline, thrown a stun grenade in a baby’s cot, and killed more than one family dog.īefore ending the show, the streamer turned back to the audience, and addressed his attacker. The more hyperbolic the threats made on the call, the more likely the police will take an aggressive stance in response. The aim is typically only to scare the victim, but in practice the attackers risk much more. The practice, known as “Swatting”, is intended to cause the dispatch of armed police to the target’s house. Then on the phone call, the police heard “two gun shots” before the call ended. The caller, he told viewers later, had said that someone “had shot their roommate and now they were pointing their gun at them”. ‘Pointing their gun’Īn anonymous caller to the St Cloud Police Department in Minnesota, where Peters has lived since returning from a tour of duty with the US Air Force in Kuwait, had claimed to live at his address. Peters, who goes by Koopatroopa787 on Twitch, returned to the screen 15 minutes later, visibly shaken and on the verge of tears, to confirm for the remaining viewers that he had been “Swatted”. ![]()
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