A preferred YouTube streamer posted on social media that he “virtually [died] in the present day” after Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division deputies drew their weapons on him and briefly detained him Sunday afternoon in what he stated seems to be a swatting incident.
Rapper DDG posted on a YouTube video that he was at a paintball match in Castaic when police surrounded him and different contributors.
“I rotated and there’s like six police vehicles and I’m like, ‘OK, what’s going to occur?’” he stated within the publish.
DDG stated he anticipated legislation enforcement would inform him of what was taking place. As an alternative, he stated, he was detained with out an evidence.
Video on social media reveals DDG being searched and being walked to and positioned inside a sheriff’s automobile simply earlier than 6 p.m.
“Bro, he pulled up. Ain’t no ‘what’s up,’ ain’t no nothing, ain’t no, ‘dude, we bought a name.’ Nothing,” DDG stated.
He then mimicked the pointing of a gun and stated police yelled at him, “Palms within the air!”
DDG stated that he had “simply bought executed smoking … so, you’ve bought to suppose what’s going via my psychological, bro.”
He didn’t elaborate on what he was smoking however added, “I’m pondering to myself the entire time, ‘is that this actual?”
A number of calls to the Sheriff’s Division’s Santa Clarita station went unanswered. The division’s fundamental media relations workplace stated it had no details about the incident.
As he sat behind the sheriff’s automobile, DDG stated, he informed deputies he believed he was being swatted, which happens when a false report of a criminal offense or emergency is made to impress an aggressive legislation enforcement response.
Essentially the most excessive examples of swatting have concerned responses from Particular Weapons and Ways, or SWAT, groups.
Whereas sitting within the sheriff’s automobile, DDG stated, he learn details about the potential swatting name on an open sheriff’s laptop computer. He believed somebody supplied the Sheriff’s Division with an outline of the precise sort of automobile he drove. He added that whoever referred to as within the criticism stated that the rapper was armed and was going to harm himself and others.
DDG stated he was held for 20 minutes earlier than being launched.
“Take pleasure in life, life life like there’s no tomorrow,” he stated on his stream, “since you by no means know.”
