An investigating is underway after a Knoxville family falls victim to a swatting call.
Knoxville Police showed up at their home Monday and forced them out, it was all caught on their ring door bell.
In the video, the mother is shouting, and police are telling her to get down.
Swatting is when somebody calls in a fake threat to police and gives them the address of an unsuspecting person.
Swatting Victim Tatyana Smith there were five or six cop cars and even more officers at her house. The security camera video also captured the nervous exchange between her and the police.
Police told Smith they were looking for a 17-year-old after the anonymous teen reportedly told a suicide hotline that they killed a 4-year-old boy at that house. That claim was found to false.
A few months ago, the FBI started a swatting database to better track where swatting attempts are happening and how to hold people accountable for phony threats.
