![]() ![]() Videos of the shooting continued to spread on Twitter on Friday afternoon, with one such example having been online for more than 11 hours. We also cooperate with law enforcement to facilitate their investigations as required.” Turn off autoplay today.- Laura Shortridge March 15, 2019Ī spokesperson for Twitter said the company has rigorous processes and a dedicated team in place for managing exigent and emergency situations such as this. YouTube tweeted early Friday that the company was “working vigilantly to remove any violent footage.” The video then began to spread around the internet, including on YouTube and Twitter. Facebook had removed the profile associated with the livestream about an hour and a half the video first started streaming. The livestream was taken down after about 20 minutes, according to timestamped archives of the Facebook page seen by NBC News. We will continue working directly with New Zealand Police as their response and investigation continues.”įacebook was not able to remove the video before it had been captured by viewers. “We're also removing any praise or support for the crime and the shooter or shooters as soon as we’re aware. “New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video,” Mia Garlick, Facebook’s director of policy in Australia and New Zealand, said in an emailed statement. Tsatsarov added that the suspect had a very good knowledge of the region’s history.ĬNN has confirmed that Tarrant also visited Pakistan in October 2018.The video was originally livestreamed on Facebook, which released a statement in the hours after the shooting detailing the company’s plans to limits its spread. Tarrant visited Bulgaria and Romania in late 2018, Bulgarian Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov told journalists on Friday, according to state news agency BTA. ![]() In the hate-filled “manifesto” sent to New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern and others shortly before the mosque attacks, Tarrant wrote that his world view had changed dramatically while traveling in Europe in 2017. Local news agencies have also reported that Tarrant visited the Balkan nations of Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia in late 2016 and early 2017. She remains in custody for questioning.Įarlier on Sunday, police said that a 24-year-old man had been arrested over a social media post pledging support for the New Zealand shooter.Īssistant Chief Constable for Greater Manchester Police, Russ Jackson, condemned the acts as “disgusting,” and said that police would seek prosecution of those involved if there is evidence.ĭetails have continued to emerge about the extensive travels of the suspected gunman, Brenton Tarrant, before the Christchurch attack.ĬNN has confirmed that Tarrant visited Egypt and Greece in March of 2016, and Turkish state broadcaster TRT reports that he visited Turkey the same month, before returning in September and staying in the country for around seven weeks. Separately, police said they also arrested a 38-year-old woman in Rochdale after comments she made about the New Zealand attack online. Officers were called to Queensway, Rochdale, over a report that a taxi driver was being abused and threatened by people who were referencing the terror attacks in New Zealand, police said in a statement.Ī 33-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of "racially aggravated" offenses and will be interviewed later today, police said. Three more people were arrested in the United Kingdom on Sunday after reports of incidents that Greater Manchester Police called "racially aggravated." ![]()
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