Memphis shooting live streamed on Facebook

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Jeni

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https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/us/memphis-shootings-suspect-detained/index.html

i have read this individual had rants about violence ...... and then streamed his own shooting rampage........on Facebook .....wonder if that met their "community standards"
Where is the safety measures Meta (facebook parent company) keeps talking about in fancy TV ads..........

oh Censors will go all out iF........for example someone is mis- gendered someone or twist anything to claim bullying
but a real LIVE violent act is unnoticed until someone notifies them
 

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Very disturbing story. Phone video's that have been recorded have/can be used in criminal trials. They will have recorded the live stream probably to this crazy event. He will get the maximum. I wonder if by live streaming his violence spree if he didn't alert people to his whereabouts and actions so they could get away. Did the live stream help save lives?
 
I read this morning that the cops didn't even know that random shootings were going on until people started reporting it was on Facebook.
 

This murderer is evil pure and simple. He bated one of this victims by faking an injury. He shot a mother in front of her daugher. He grinned ear to ear upon and for his mug shot. He also shot a friend in the head to start his spree

This pos also got 'a' break after serving 11 months of 3 year assault charged after an attempted murder charge was reduced. He was recently indicted for MURDER and had an existing warrant for his arrest. There are also online picture showing him with lots of guns and cash fully displayed.

Evil is arrogant.

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/suspe...is-shooting-spree-that-left-four-people-dead/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...oose-police-believe-shot-multiple-people.html
 
Memphis was once a very beautiful and energetic city. But like so many other big cities here in the U.S., it has gone into the crapper. Violence is not handled as it once was. The police have been demonized and have had to operate with one hand tied behind their back. As fast as the bad guys are arrested, they get back out on the streets even faster.

The Governor of Tennessee has also gone soft on crime. If he had his way, he would let half of all criminals out of the Tennessee prisons. He worries more about what it costs to house these sleazeballs than what the effect would be keeping them locked up.

Gov. Lee
 
Nathan said:
I don't know what this particular shooter's entertainment history is, but I've thought for many years that playing violent first person shooter video games can desensitize a young person to the horror of inflicting pain and death on other humans.
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Nathan it's not the games. It's the mental health of the individual that creates the problem. I played shooter games and I don't wanna go on a killing spree. I never will. These things that these people do are coming from deep within them. There is something wrong with them. Blaming a video game is just kinda stupid because there are lots of us who game that are not violent even though we may play violent games. Those games scratch an itch that helps relieve stress. Plus I'd be curious to see how many of these mass shooters actually played shooter games before they decided to go kill a bunch of people.

After all how do we know he wasn't a hunter? And he decided if he could kill a deer he could kill a person just as easily. I could see that being more of a stimulant than a video game. I could never look down the barrel of an actual gun and shoot at an animal without being directly affected. People always like to find blame somewhere for these acts. But they could come from something as simple as his childhood history. It could have started with abuse and then spiraled into some life long mental health issues. You just never know.
 
MarciKS said:
Nathan it's not the games. It's the mental health of the individual that creates the problem. I played shooter games and I don't wanna go on a killing spree. I never will. These things that these people do are coming from deep within them. There is something wrong with them. Blaming a video game is just kinda stupid because there are lots of us who game that are not violent even though we may play violent games. Those games scratch an itch that helps relieve stress. Plus I'd be curious to see how many of these mass shooters actually played shooter games before they decided to go kill a bunch of people.

After all how do we know he wasn't a hunter? And he decided if he could kill a deer he could kill a person just as easily. I could see that being more of a stimulant than a video game. I could never look down the barrel of an actual gun and shoot at an animal without being directly affected. People always like to find blame somewhere for these acts. But they could come from something as simple as his childhood history. It could have started with abuse and then spiraled into some life long mental health issues. You just never know.
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19 year old black kid with a long criminal record, certainly doesn't fit the profile of a hunter. I don't know for sure about the influence of violent video games but they aren't a positive feature of modern life.

I don't see much correlation between hunting and violence against people. Would be an interesting thing to study.
 
There hasn't been much published about the shooter's personal life, but he seemed to like the gangster lifestyle.

Remember "outlaw country" music where they glamorized crime and violence? Johnny Cash sung of shooting a man in Reno "just to watch him die." Today's hip-hop music may be doing the same thing. I don't know. I don't listen to it, but I know that's what a lot of their "music" is about.
 
MarciKS said:
Nathan it's not the games. It's the mental health of the individual that creates the problem. I played shooter games and I don't wanna go on a killing spree. I never will. These things that these people do are coming from deep within them. There is something wrong with them. Blaming a video game is just kinda stupid because there are lots of us who game that are not violent even though we may play violent games. Those games scratch an itch that helps relieve stress. Plus I'd be curious to see how many of these mass shooters actually played shooter games before they decided to go kill a bunch of people.

After all how do we know he wasn't a hunter? And he decided if he could kill a deer he could kill a person just as easily. I could see that being more of a stimulant than a video game. I could never look down the barrel of an actual gun and shoot at an animal without being directly affected. People always like to find blame somewhere for these acts. But they could come from something as simple as his childhood history. It could have started with abuse and then spiraled into some life long mental health issues. You just never know.
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For sure, mental health plays a big part. I wouldn't expect FPS video games to cause a healthy person to murder, but perhaps they might affect someone that already has issues.
 
Nathan said:
For sure, mental health plays a big part. I wouldn't expect FPS video games to cause a healthy person to murder, but perhaps they might affect someone that already has issues.
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I've wondered about this but I don't spend too much time on it, because I've never seen or heard about any actual data that would confirm or deny the correlation. People do have opinions about it on both sides to be sure, and a while back politicians jumped on board the train thinking opposing video games would be a sure win, but it didn't seem to go anywhere. It seems to me that Hollywood movies are for more graphic, and often appeal to the psychotic tendencies much more than the most violent video games, where it's kill or be killed.
 
JimBob1952 said:
19 year old black kid with a long criminal record, certainly doesn't fit the profile of a hunter. I don't know for sure about the influence of violent video games but they aren't a positive feature of modern life.

I don't see much correlation between hunting and violence against people. Would be an interesting thing to study.
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i can't speak for all gamers but a lot of us don't really go out much. kinda tough to do a mass shooting when you're cuddled up with your controller trying to win a fortnite match. lol!
 
I think the desensitizing of young people has been going on for a long time and it may be partly the lyrics of their music, partly what they see on TV and in movies, and partly their video games.

One thing that was mentioned after the Columbine school shootings was that the two boys had practiced by playing video games patterned after those used to train the military. One thing they learned was to resist the instinct to stop and watch your victim fall and instead to just move immediately to the next target.

What I feel like I'm seeing in some of the random shootings these days, particularly the killing of police, is that the killers have been falsely taught that the police are deliberately targeting African Americans while allowing white criminals to go free, and that the police are a direct continuation of the centuries of violence against people of color including lynching and slavery.

This demonization of the police creates anger and division and allows young men to feel justified when they commit murder.
 
For anyone in/from Memphis, you have my deepest sympathies. These lives lost, the issues with 'soft' law enforcement, and all the other things described/discussed here are very worrying. We see similar in London with so much knife crime these days, and 'county line' drug gangs using young and often vulnerable people to conduct their 'business' in communities. It's all so very sad and truly awful, no matter where it happens.
 
Jeni said:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/us/memphis-shootings-suspect-detained/index.html

i have read this individual had rants about violence ...... and then streamed his own shooting rampage........on Facebook .....wonder if that met their "community standards"
Where is the safety measures Meta (facebook parent company) keeps talking about in fancy TV ads..........

oh Censors will go all out iF........for example someone is mis- gendered someone or twist anything to claim bullying
but a real LIVE violent act is unnoticed until someone notifies them
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And if impressionable young people and wacked-out older people hadn't thought of committing these acts, they may now... :mad::(
 

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