Valorant pro s0m swatted as armed police crash Twitch stream while family asleep Twitter \/ Twitch: s0mFormer NRG Valorant player Sam \u2018s0m\u2019 Oh has called out whatever \u201cgenuinely horrible person\u201d was responsible, after a swatting attack took place at his home in the early morning, as his family was sleeping. Swatting is an illegal and dangerous prank, often targeted at livestreamers, where the perpetrator phones the police and falsely reports a serious incident, hoping to prompt an armed response to the property. Historically, swatting incidents have resulted in serious injury and even death, as armed police can believe they are entering a dangerous situation, which is entirely made up. On January 4, s0m revealed that he had been the victim of a swatting, which targeted where he was staying with family. Police arrive on s0m\u2019s Twitch stream Usually, swatting is done when a streamer is live, so that the moment can be captured on stream. s0m had been streaming in the early hours when police arrived. A clip of the incident shows an officer entering his streaming room with what appears to be a shotgun. \u201cSwatted at 6:30AM while my whole family is sleeping,\u201d s0m said on X\/Twitter. \u201cActually ridiculous.\u201d \u201cTo whoever did this you are genuinely a horrible person, swatting is not a joke and puts people\u2019s lives at risk,\u201d he added. Despite the incident, he did confirm he would return to streaming later, undeterred by the swatter. Often, once police recognize that it was a false alarm, arrangements will be made with the streamer to confirm if calls are genuine in case of future swatting attempts. Some of the biggest streamers in the world, like xQc, have revealed that they will be swatted almost daily, forcing them to move address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valorant pro s0m swatted as armed police crash Twitch stream while family asleep Twitter \/ Twitch: s0mFormer NRG Valorant player Sam \u2018s0m\u2019 Oh has called out whatever \u201cgenuinely horrible person\u201d was responsible, after a swatting attack took place at his home in the early morning, as his family was sleeping. Swatting is an illegal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}