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Black Lives Matter leader victim of another apparent swatting call

by City News Service • September 24, 2021

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A leader of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles who was targeted in a swatting incident last year was the victim of another apparent false emergency call Thursday.

Los Angeles Police Department officers were called to the residence of Melina Abdullah about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in the 2100 block of Wellington Road, near Washington Boulevard after receiving a call that Abdullah’s young son had contacted police claiming Abdullah had overdosed on pills and requested assistance, Capt. Stacy Spell told the Los Angeles Times.

A unit and a supervisor was sent to Abdullah’s home to check on her, Spell said.

Spell told The Times officers “were able to determine that she was not in any danger” after a neighbor was able to contact Abdullah and notify her that police were at her door. The responding officers ultimately determined the report was a false emergency call for service intended to elicit a large police response to the location.

Abdullah filed a lawsuit this week alleging the LAPD had acted improperly after a similar call last year to her home and said Thursday’s swatting call was “very suspicious” as it came on the heels of her lawsuit.

“The timing is not coincidental,” she told The Times.

Anyone with information on the swatting call is asked to call the LAPD Major Crimes Division at 213-486-7280. Calls made during non-business hours or on weekends should be made to 877-527-3247.

Anonymous tips can be called in to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or submitted online at lacrimestoppers.org.

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Filed Under: Crime/ Safety

5 comments for "Black Lives Matter leader victim of another apparent swatting call"

  1. Loampounder says

    September 25, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    Someone called a fake medical emergency call at her home? That is not what “swatting” means.

  2. Sam the man says

    September 25, 2021 at 9:12 am

    Juicy smollet hoax all over again for the Marxist America hating terrorist group known as BLM (burn loot murder)

    • Tim Scott says

      September 25, 2021 at 9:47 am

      It’s interesting how people who assume it’s a hoax are obviously hateful enough to have done it themselves if they had thought of it.

  3. Swatting Lives Matter says

    September 24, 2021 at 3:34 pm

    “Abdullah filed a lawsuit … and said Thursday’s swatting call was “very suspicious” as it came on the heels of her lawsuit.”

    BLM is likely staging the calls.

    • Tim Scott says

      September 24, 2021 at 6:27 pm

      Sure…I mean it isn’t like there’s anyone with a hate bone on for BLM.

      Well, I mean there’s you, obviously.

      But you are the only one, right?

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