In July of 2022, Patrick Tomlinson woke up to heavily-armed police officers pounding on the door of his Milwaukee home. They dragged him out of the house, naked, while they searched his residence.
It wouldn’t be the last time that police were called to his house for a murder.
Tomlinson and his wife Nikki Robinson are victims of “swatting,” a crime where perpetrators call in false reports of violent crime — like a shooting or a hostage situation — to trigger a major police response…