For years, “swatting” has continued to plague video game streamers and Internet content creators. Swatting, for the uninitiated, is a potentially deadly prank where someone gives falsified information to police to get them to send a swat team to someone’s house. There have beencountless swatting incidentsover the years, with many of them documented onTwitchlivestreams, as is the case with the latest swatting incident involving LosPollosTV.
Twitch streamer LosPollosTV was streaming thepopularFortnitebattle royale gamewhen they were raided by an armed police force on July 22. A clip of the LosPollosTV swatting incident shows police enter the streamer’s room. One police officer in the clip is holding a riot shield and another has his gun drawn. The police are only visible for a moment before they exit the room. Thankfully, LosPollosTV came out of the incident unharmed.
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Shortly after LosPollosTV was swatted, theTwitchstreamer returned to his stream to address the incident. He explained to his Twitch chat that “some f****** p****” swatted his house. He then told his chat that he doesn’t want them to start blaming people for swatting him. Dexerto reports that it’s possible this was in reference to LosPollosTV’s chat potentially blaming fellow Twitch streamer Ludwig for the swatting incident.
The chat possibly reached this conclusion based on a Twitter argument between Ludwig and LosPollosTV over theongoing Twitch gambling controversy. However, it must be stressed that there is zero evidence that Ludwig did this and it’s absurd that any streamer would swat a fellow content creator in this day and age, let alone someone as well-known as Ludwig. All things considered, it’s highly unlikely that the person who swatted LosPollosTV was anyone notable in the streaming community.
Regardless of who the culprit is, it’s disappointing that swatting incidents are still happening, especially in the wake of deadly swatting incidents over the years. In 2017, a swatting incident ended tragically when an angryCall of Dutyplayer got upset about losing a match with a mere $1.50 on the line. They then tried to swat their opponent as revenge, but sent police to the incorrect address, resulting in thedeath of 28 year old father of two Andrew Finch, who had nothing to do with the situation at all.
Tyler Barriss, theCall of Dutyswatter, was found guilty of 51 federal charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in Finch’s death. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to have deterred swatters, as the practice continues to this day.
