It’s been nearly 15 years since the FBI officially designated “SWATing” — prank-calling emergency services to prompt a violent police response from a Special Weapons and Tactics team on an unsuspecting victim — a dangerous “new phenomenon” done primarily “for the bragging rights and ego, versus any monetary gain.” In that time, the practice has led to multiple instances of police violence — sometimes fatal — against unsuspecting marks whose sole crime was raising the ire of someone willing to anonymously deploy state-authorized force as a means for revenge.
This week, that unsuspecting mark was none other than Georgia congresswoman and enthusiastic Christian nationalist Marjorie Taylor Greene, who claimed Thursday morning to have been “swatted” a second time in as many days.
