Testing the Limits of Free Speech
4 min readMar 31, 2019
Video-game trash talk and a “swatting” hoax cost an innocent Kansas man his life in 2017. Now, the person responsible for the prank has been sentenced to 20-years in Federal prison.
When a fully-armed Wichita Police Department force confronted the man who answered their loud knock on December 28 in 2017, they were expecting someone else. Someone armed, dangerous, and sducidal. Someone who had already…