Tim Pool Swatted: Police Dispatch Audio (redacted)

By popular demand, this is the REDACTED version (previous one has been made private), which completely removes directly-identifying location information.

Somebody attempted to swat political commentator Tim Pool at his home/ compound in Maryland on January 6, 2022. Swatting is "the action or practice of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to bring about the dispatch of a large number of armed police officers to a particular address." People and canines have been killed in the past during "prank" swattings.

As we can hear in the audio, the caller was a male. From what I can gather, he claimed two people were shot (correct me if I'm wrong) at Tim's address and that Tim was in self-deletion mode. Didn't take the cops long to figure out the call was bogus. Luckily nobody was hurt.

I censored the name (and now number) of the street Tim's house is on in the audio out of respect, although it is publicly available information I found easily on Google.

Audio via broadcastify.com, get you a subscription to access the archives to hear audio like this. It's worth it, IMO.