Reporter killed during news report
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Wow. It sounds like the video camera was still filming and they got a still of the shooter.
Obvious hate crime. Hope whites riot.
CNN reporting they have the name and license plate of the shooter. Shooting a guy as he's shooting a video with a wide lens camera is probably not the best course of action in remaining anonymous. Did it occur to this Rhodes scholar it might be a prudent decision to not leave that camera at the scene of the crime?
Did it occur to the Rhodes scholar who posted this that it doesn't matter if he took the camera with him since the video was already transmitted somewhere. It's not a still camera.
Black man kills two white former co-workers
Supposedly he sued a former employer for racial discrimination.
Supposedly he jus posted something about why he shot her. She allegedly made racist comments about him.
Sounds like this dude is the victim
Supposedly he sued a former employer for racial discrimination.
Supposedly he jus posted something about why he shot her. She allegedly made racist comments about him.
Sounds like this dude is the victim
I made it about 3 seconds into that video. The guy is standing behind the camera man with his gun up then points it at the reporter. Then I closed the window.
The video started autoplaying on my twitter timeline. Turned it off immediately. Horrifying stuff
You can find it in the comments here: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3igiea/reporter_crew_shot_on_live_tv_wdbj7_video_in/
This is not good; we have a new M.O. for shooters. The news stories aren't enough infamy, now they're going to be Periscoping or Youtubing their first-person perspective. Just in time for back-to-school.
Can't imagine the despair. Shame FoyeEffect isn't here for this. Instead he's on Twitter trolling the brothers with racially charged comments like Donald trump at a Cinco de Mayo party.
Valid point but how do we fix this? The videos are going to be watched. They're going to be made. What drives people to kill isn't an urge to be seen on youtube. It's an urge to wield complete control over another human beings life. It's an urge to "right" a "wrong" which was done to them. Not very simple to fix these things.
There are dozens of shootings every day which don't go national. I don't think coverage of them as a result of footage somehow makes the murder worse. We have a murder problem, not a coverage problem.
It's just amazing the lengths some of these fired employees will go on vendettas.
Just looking at this guy, he was what, a production assistant? Making like 35K a year? And whatever happened on the job, he's canned; he KILLS two people, critically injures a third, and tries to commit suicide after a police chase?
Waiting for the mentally disturbed records to come out and how easily he bought that gun.
Just looking at this guy, he was what, a production assistant? Making like 35K a year? And whatever happened on the job, he's canned; he KILLS two people, critically injures a third, and tries to commit suicide after a police chase?
Waiting for the mentally disturbed records to come out and how easily he bought that gun.
Going to go out on a limb and say the gun was not purchased through legal channels.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...attack-committed-suicide-after-broadcast.html
Look how close he gets. The reporters are so focused on their jobs that they don't even see him coming. He must have been disguised as a secondary camera man or something.
Look how close he gets. The reporters are so focused on their jobs that they don't even see him coming. He must have been disguised as a secondary camera man or something.
The fact is field reporting isn't a very sophisticated operation. It's just two people out trying to do their jobs. Keep in mind they were live, so you're simply not going to disrupt a live broadcast because someone is around. People are always around these things...
She was hit but will live.
Guy was a lousy shot. He was literally 4 feet away and should have capped both of them easily in head.