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Facebook temporarily disabled the social media accounts of a woman who was posting video of her own standoff negotiations with the police:
Baltimore police shot and killed Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old black woman, after an hourslong standoff on Monday — during which Facebook and Instagram, at police request, temporarily shut down Gaines' accounts. [...] Police Chief Jim Johnson says Gaines was posting video of the standoff to social media as it was unfolding, which prompted police to request the deactivation of her accounts. Gaines' Facebook page is now reactivated; it does not have any videos visible to the public. On Instagram, one video apparently recorded during the standoff remains. [...] A second video, now deleted, showed a police officer with a gun drawn at Gaines' door. Facebook and Instagram have not responded to NPR's requests for comment.
[...] "Gaines was posting video of the operation as it unfolded. Followers were encouraging her not to comply with negotiators' requests that she surrender peacefully," he said. "Clearly, you can see this was an exigent circumstance where life and serious injury were in jeopardy." After a short period of time, Facebook (which owns Instagram) complied and deactivated the accounts. No data was deleted, Johnson said. Police do not have the authority to directly deactivate a social media account, Johnson and the spokeswoman both said. Facebook decides whether to comply with such requests.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Snotnose on Thursday August 04 2016, @04:58AM
I'm a bad guy from wherever looking to kill as many people as possible. Think I haven't noticed the big orange thing on the end of toy guns and realized taping an empty toilet paper roll to my mac-9, then painting it orange, wouldn't get me a couple extra seconds?
Those orange tips are worse than useless, they give innocent people a false sense of security.
The solution is to fix the cops' "shoot first, let god sort it out" mentality.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday August 04 2016, @08:07AM
Cops were given those rights for a reason. Want to guess what those reasons are? Ever heard of people saying 'they should just be shot', 'we arent doing enough to curb crime against...', 'these men need to be castrated' etc.? You can't have both. Hell, I am sure someone from #BlackLivesMatter is demanding the same thing done to racist cops.