A YouTube feed of a Counter-Strike game took an unexpected turn today, when it was interrupted by a very real SWAT team that happened to be sweeping the building. The gamers in the video are part of The Creatures, a group based in Littleton Colorado that publishes videos to YouTube and Twitch, and since the broadcast was in progress during the raid, their entire arrest ended up on the livestream.
This ‘Counter-Strike’ livestream was interrupted by a real-life SWAT team
Because the police search turned up no weapons, it’s likely that The Creatures were the target of Swatting, the increasingly common practice of rallying police to a location through a phony 911 call. According to a local news report, the entire building was evacuated, and photos show a fully armed police squad sweeping the parking lot. The office complex is just a few miles east of Columbine High School, site of the 1999 school massacre.
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