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Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident


A Tucson man is asking Pima County to pay $176 million after sheriff's deputies shot him, leaving him paralyzed, when online hackers falsely reported a shooting at his home. The man had alerted the Sheriff's Department to fears that he would be "swatted" just days earlier.

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