UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley says his Arizona home was “swat”. This is a term used when armed police are mistakenly called to a person’s residence in response to a violent threat or highly volatile situation.
O’Malley, known for streaming online while playing video games, was shirtless with a game controller in hand when he noticed police sirens wailing in his driveway.
“I got home and was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to stream today,'” O’Malley said on his podcast.Timbo Sugar Show. ”
“About an hour and a half into the stream, I saw a fucking cop coming down my path,” O’Malley recalled. The fighter said she felt what was happening after seeing many other prominent streaming personalities receive the same treatment from angry viewers.
“People find their location, call the police, say something happened that clearly didn’t happen, and then they get slapped.”
“They said I killed my parents or something like that. They thought there was an active shooter inside.”
“So I stuck my head out the window, thinking there might be something else going on, but the intercom was going off and there were some cops and they were like, ‘Get out with your hands up.’ So I put my hands up and walked out. I was like, ‘I’m just going to listen. They’re going to shoot me.’ There were four police officers pointing shotguns at me, AR15s at me. added.
The UFC champion revealed that after being taken into police custody, he received a 911 call claiming he had killed his parents.
“They said I killed my parents or something like that. They thought there was an active shooter inside,” O’Malley explained. She said she was asked multiple times if anyone was in the residence.
“It’s like, ‘Who’s in there?'” No, it was just a game, “Who’s in there?!” Nobody! “Somebody called the police and said something like there was a shooter, there were two dead people in the house,” he told police.
O’Malley later explained that the responding police destroyed the doorbell camera because they didn’t want the shooter inside the house to know where they were.
Despite being a celebrity, O’Malley said he was restrained in the back seat of a police car for about 35 to 40 minutes until other officers arrived on the scene and recognized him.
Once police identified him as a “UFC champion,” the situation “got less intense,” O’Malley said.
The militant was told by police that law enforcement has not been able to locate or identify the person who made the prank call.
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