Following months of right-wing media attacks, family of Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is targeted in dangerous harassment incident
A fake hostage call resulted in a team of armed police being sent to Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg's house.
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On June 5, local Florida media reported that the family home of school mass shooting survivor and gun violence prevention activist David Hogg was “swatted” Tuesday morning.
“Swatting” is a harassment practice deployed by online trolls in which someone places an anonymous call to police and falsely accuses the targeted person of a crime to get units, usually a SWAT team, deployed to the victim’s home. In Hogg’s case, someone falsely claimed there was a hostage situation in his home. He was not home at the time.