The Christchurch attacks also prompted the New Zealand government within weeks to pass new laws banning the deadliest types of semi-automatic weapons.
Twitch said it removed the video in less than two minutes. The Buffalo shooter allegedly livestreamed the attack to the gaming platform Twitch, which is owned by Amazon. Since Christchurch, social platforms have learned to remove videos of extremist shootings faster. The video and Tarrant’s screed were quickly banned in New Zealand but can still be found in dark corners of the internet. The Christchurch attack was livestreamed for 17 minutes and viewed by hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook before it was taken down. Gendron, who surrendered inside the supermarket, has pleaded not guilty and was jailed under a suicide watch.Īfter eventually pleading guilty, Tarrant, an Australian citizen, in 2020 became the first person in New Zealand to be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the toughest sentence available. In a 180-page diatribe, Payton Gendron said he subscribed to the same racist “great replacement” theory that the New Zealand gunman Brenton Tarrant wrote about in a similar 74-page screed.Īnd like Tarrant, Gendron allegedly painted slogans on his gun and used a helmet-mounted camera to livestream his attack on the internet.
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