Sucks though, having him dead to rights in the courts doesn't bring back the victim.

Not all pranks end well.

Prank speaks to intent, not to outcome. It's a practical joke or mischievous act, and that's both the descriptive dictionary definition and what I've observed. In my experience, they're often not light-hearted. Some can be downright vicious. Mischief need not be light-hearted.

The first difficulty here is that the intended victim of the prank wasn't the actual victim. The fool who called in the address was a fool in part because he assumed that he was given the correct address.

The second is that it ended in an unintended death. It put the victim in a bad situation and put the cop in an only slightly less bad situation, both completely unnecessary and based upon a doubly false report. The fool didn't even know he was giving the police a false address when he screwed up the lives of at least half a dozen people because his personal humiliation and grievance was so awesomely important. The butthole seriously needs an attitude correction; it's too bad that it's after he accidentally set up a lethal encounter between total strangers, both to him and to each other.

It was a prank. It was a joke. It was a bad idea. It was a crime.

It was many things-- none of which deny the others... and defending the language which, by its colloquial usage trivializes the deed, may not be inaccurate.

Yet lacking any contrarianism agenda, one must admit (to themselves if not of good enough character to do so aloud) that more accurate, germane and contextually relevant language could be used in its stead.

It seems like violent jokes are in vogue these days.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-police-brutality-joke_us_597f9650e4b08e143004d709

President Donald Trump was just joking when he suggested police officers should let suspects’ heads bang against the doors of their police cars ― or so White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she believed on Monday.

Trump made the remark last week while speaking to law enforcement officers on Long Island, New York.

“When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, and I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’” Trump explained. “Like when you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody, don’t hit their head, I said, ‘You can take the hand away, OK?’”

This comment, Sanders claimed, was meant in jest. “I believe he was making a joke at the time,” she said.

that kind of shit has got to stop

He brags about having either swatted or bomb threated 100 schools and 10 homes. He brags about disrupting an FCC meeting in November...granted, the meeting was on killing net neutrality but you don't call in bomb threats no matter how bad you hate Trump. He also called in a bomb threat against a convention center in Dallas.

These crimes have an interstate character - he did all these things from California. This is what the federal courts are for, and he needs to spend the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary.

It doesn't really matter. He won't have a very nice time in any state prison. He will be going in as a known snitch. The fact that they were fake 911 calls won't matter. Nobody is going to trust he won't try to pull the same crap in prison, where ratting someone out against the wrong group will get them killed.

He is a punk ass bitch. He is going to find out you can't hide in your mommies basement and ruin peoples lives. He won't like his new role as someone who has to live life in the face of those you fuck with.

Perhaps some paid time off though.

Cops don't have the same rules. It was just a mistake, they'll say.

The firing squad is already ready for the guy who called it in, but I'm guessing the cop will get a pass....perhaps they'll even demand an apology from the caller to the cop, because you know......cops.

... like he didn't *want* to be seeing what he thought he saw happening, or do what he thought he had to do...

... compared to the video of the asshole playing Simon Says with the unarmed man at close range, telling him to crawl on knees with his legs crossed behind him and keep his hands up, to fall on his face rather than try to keep balance, and then shooting him anyway. It's reflex for a conscious person to try to break their fall.

Sadly since that guy got off, it's likely this officer will as well.

I cannot believe what they did to that man. He was doomed from the first second, never had a chance.

Source: Reuters

really throw the book at him. This is dangerous, and it's a crime with legal consequences. The high profile nature of this story should make others think twice.