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It's just a less lethal form of SWAT'ing, which has been done. "Trigger a response targeted at the person I'm attacking frome someone or something stronger than I or them ..."

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It's kinda like a DoS amplification attack, but amplifying authority instead of bandwidth.

There's an established word for it: "framing" (or "frame-up").

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