{"id":84788,"date":"2018-01-03T04:10:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T09:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=84788"},"modified":"2018-01-03T04:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:06:10","slug":"swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_84789\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Finch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged\" title=\"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84789\" title=\"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-84789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Finch-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Finch Victim\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Finch-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Finch-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Finch.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Finch was killed by police following a fake report of a hostage situation at his residence. (<em>Photo: Sky News<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The family of a man who was killed by police during a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swatting\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged\" title=\"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged\">swatting<\/a> prank wants the officer who pulled the trigger charged as a criminal.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Finch, 28, was shot and killed by Wichita police last week.\u00a0 Officers were responding to a prank call that claimed a hostage situation was unfolding at Finch\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n<p>The officer who opened fire \u201cshould be held liable and held accountable for the unjustified shooting of Andrew Finch,\u201d the family\u2019s attorney Andrew M. Stroth told <a href=\"https:\/\/cw39.com\/2018\/01\/03\/swatting-victims-mother-to-police-please-let-me-see-my-son\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged\" title=\"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged\">CNN<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cThe city of Wichita and the Police Department are liable because of their policies and practices as it relates to this shooting. Swatting is not new, just like prank calling is not new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finch\u2019s mother, Lisa Finch, wrote a letter to Mayor Jeff Longwell, police Chief Gordon Ramsay and other city officials. She asked for information regarding police training protocols for \u201cswatting\u201d pranks. She also asked to see the body of her son. And to have her front door, a computer, two cellphones, a video game and other items returned to her, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/attorney-family-swatting-victim-wants-officer-charged-233521240.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged\" title=\"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It goes without saying that our family is devastated by what has happened,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;What cannot go without saying is why Wichita City leadership is compounding our grief and sorrow, by keeping my son from us? Please let me see my son&#8217;s lifeless body. I want to hold him and say goodbye. Please immediately return his body to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Swatting is a prank in the online gaming community in which a fake 911 call is made to police asking them to come to the victim\u2019s home. In this incident, Los Angeles resident Tyler Barriss is suspected of making the call after a dispute during a <em>Call of Duty <\/em>game. He allegedly phoned Wichita police and claimed to have shot his father in the head. He also claimed to be holding his mother and sibling at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Finch opened the door to SWAT officers, who told him to put his hands up and move slowly. Deputy Chief Troy Livingston told reporters last week that Finch moved a hand toward the area of his waistband. Then, an officer shot him.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/honolulu-police-dept-pot-smokers-30-days-turn-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged\" title=\"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged\">Honolulu Police Dept. to Pot Smokers: \u2018You Have 30 Days to Turn over Your Guns\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>While Finch\u2019s family believes the officer and the department should be charged for this incident, criminologist B. Remy Cross at Webster University in Missouri told the AP that criminal charges are unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is sort of a fact of the world we live in now that it is very difficult to bring charges against police officers unless there is glaring negligence and misconduct,&#8221; Cross said. &#8220;While I certainly sympathize with the family \u2014 and I think there was probably not the necessary due caution exercised in this incident \u2014 I don&#8217;t know that they are going to necessarily be very successful in pushing for charges to be brought against the officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t clear that Finch was even involved in the original dispute. Lisa Finch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/03\/us\/swatting-police-shooting\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"swatting-victims-family-wants-officer-criminally-charged\" title=\"Swatting\u2019 Victim\u2019s Family Wants Officer Criminally Charged\">told CNN<\/a> that her son didn\u2019t even play video games.<\/p>\n<p>Burris is expected to be extradited to Kansas where he will face charges.<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a man who was killed by police during a \u201cswatting\u201d prank wants the officer who pulled the trigger charged as a criminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":84789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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