New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush says the gunman who killed 50 people and wounded dozens of others at two Christchurch mosques Friday acted alone, but may have had support.Īustralian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant was arrested moments after the shootings. Accused shooter was sole gunman, but may have had help, top cop says The teen is also accused of posting a photo of one of the mosques with the message "target acquired" and with posting other chat messages "inciting extreme violence," the Herald reported. He was arrested Friday but police have said they don't think he was directly involved in the attack. His request for bail was denied at a court in New Zealand Monday but the judge said his name could be kept out of the public eye. "You know I have lots of support, lots of love, lots of kindness from all of the New Zealand people." Teen charged with distributing gunman's livestream: ReportĪn 18-year-old man has been charged with distributing a livestream of the mass shooting at two mosques Friday, the New Zealand Herald reported, according to the Reuters news service. "I will not change my opinion about New Zealand. I still remember you."It's good for the world to see what's happened because people around the world, they thought we were terrorists because some stupid people, they said they are Muslims, they go and kill innocent people, they thought we are terrorists," said Abulaban who emigrated to New Zealand from Jordan 17 years ago. “On a personal level you have fascinated and amused me with your content. You have been our constant companions and although we probably didn't get to communicate too often you're appreciated more than you realize,” Hewitt said on his blog. “To the members, the uploaders, the casual visitors, the trolls and the occasionally demented people who have been with us. LiveLeak is gone, replaced by a site that explicitly bans gory and violent imagery. As YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter removed video of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque shooting, LiveLeak continued to host it and faced mounting pressure from the Government’s of Australia and New Zealand. After Islamic State posted the video of it beheading journalist James Foley in 2014, LiveLeak banned Islamic State from posting beheading videos. If you wanted to see footage of America firing Hellfire missiles at fighters in Afghanistan, you looked to LiveLeak.Īs the world got more complicated and more people surged online, Hewitt and others tried to better moderate LiveLeak. If a friend wanted to show you footage of a drug cartel beheading via chainsaw, they were showing you on LiveLeak. If you wanted to see footage of the Saddam Hussein execution you went to LiveLeak. LiveLeak contained much of the same footage but framed it in a more respectable way and the creators framed it as a place for citizen journalists to post uncensored videos of world events. Along with and others, Ogrish was a place people went to when they wanted to see the worst the web had to offer. LiveLeak began in 2006 as an offshoot of the early internet shock site Ogrish. I'm sat here now writing this with a mixture of sorrow because LL has been not just a website or business but a way of life for me and many of the guys but also genuine excitement at what's next.” “The world has changed a lot over these last few years, the Internet alongside it, and we as people. “Nothing lasts forever though and-as we did all those years ago-we felt LiveLeak had achieved all that it could and it was time for us to try something new and exciting,” LiveLeak co-founder Hayden Hewitt said in a blog post explaining the change.
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