This is amazing. Tim Pool hosts an extremely popular live podcast on YouTube on most week nights. During his broadcast on Thursday, police showed up at his studio because he had been swatted. Someone called the police and claimed two people had been shot at the studio.
The Washington Examiner has details:
Podcaster Tim Pool was raided by officers while on the air Thursday in what turned out to be a swatting incident.Officers raided Pool’s home during a live taping of his podcast after an anonymous source reported people had been shot and killed at Pool’s house in Maryland. Several officers responded to investigate what turned out to be a swatting incident, defined by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office as “a false 911 call reporting a serious incident to elicit a significant response from police and other emergency services.””Someone called Police and said they shot and killed two people and were going to kill more,” Pool tweeted Thursday evening. “Police were told not to enter without a warrant but said they didn’t need one due to exigent circumstances.”Pool’s co-host Lydia Smith received a text message claiming the household had been raided during the Thursday broadcast of Timcast IRL. Smith’s comments were followed by an officer passing briefly in front of the camera. Pool stepped out of camera view to speak to an officer while his hosts discussed the dangers and risks involved with such raids, according to the video.
Here’s the moment where the police entered the studio:
Someone needs to go to jail over this.
Featured image via YouTube.
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