In a 15-minute window, Reuters found five copies of the footage on YouTube uploaded under the search term “New Zealand” and tagged with categories including “education” and “people & blogs”. Facebook did not immediately respond to additional questions. Twitter and Google said they were working to stop the footage being reshared. Facebook said it had deleted the gunman’s accounts “shortly after the livestream commenced” after being alerted by police.īut Reuters found videos of the shooting on all five platforms up to 10 hours after the attacks, which began at 1345 local time in the city of Christchurch. The live footage of Friday’s attacks, New Zealand’s worst-ever mass shooting, was first posted to Facebook and has since been shared on Twitter, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube and Facebook-owned Whatsapp and Instagram.įacebook, Twitter and YouTube all said they had taken steps to remove copies of the videos. Read: Derek Diaz’s family holds vigil and demands answers from OPD after an officer-involved shootingĬlick here to download the free WFTV news and weather apps, click here to download the WFTV Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.Bloodied bandages on the road following a shooting at the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 15, 2019. “I think that it’s fairly common today to see videos of people being removed from vehicles immediately for much less, and there seems to be a dramatic pause in this particular instance,” he said. READ: ‘So sickening’: Derek Diaz’s family describes watching video of his downtown Orlando shooting deathīut Castrofort has a lot of questions after watching the video, like what was going on before the officer shot Diaz. “That’s going to be in the minds of the officers on scene.” “People dealing drugs carry guns, they carry knives, they carry weapons,” he said. Retired Orlando police detective Bill Moore said to understand the video and the officer’s perspective, you have to understand the officer’s mindset.
READ: Bodycam videos show Orlando police officer fatally shoot man seated in parked car in downtown “I definitely see a movement, I see an instruction that’s been disregarded,” he said. When he refused to put his hands on the steering wheel, police opened fire.Īttorney Joe Castrofort watched the footage with Channel 9, and said Diaz clearly did not do what he was told. > STREAM CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE <<<Īfter first complying with officers, Diaz moved his hand toward the center console.
Newly released bodycam video shows Orlando police officers approach 26-year-old Derek Diaz while he was sitting in a car in an area police say is known for drug activity.
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