Mosque shooting in Christchurch NZ

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Multiple fatalities reported. 300-500 people at Friday prayers when a gunman went in with an automatic weapon shooting for 5-20 minutes (varied witness reports). And another mosque also involved with injuries. Poor Christchurch.
mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-15/armed-police-respond-to-suspected-shooting-christchurch-mosque/10904306?pfmredir=sm

Terrible news. My heart goes out to everyone caught up in this tragedy.

When the shooter entered the mosque a man warmly greeted him with 'welcome brother' and the sick bastard shot him dead at point blank range.

Still trying to get my head round this in NZ.

Anyway, I've transcribed that No Notoriety protocol from the image in case people find it useful.

NO NOTORIETY MEDIA PROTOCOL
To reduce rampage acts of mass violence due to media-inspired fame.

• Adhere to the journalistic principle to "Minimize Harm," keeping in mind the responsibility of balancing the public's need for information vs. potential harm.

• Recognize that the prospect of infamy serves as a motivating factor for other individuals to kill and inspires copycat crimes

• Report the facts surrounding the mindset, demographic and motivational profile, without adding complimentary [sic, I think should be complementary] color to the individual or their actions, and downplay the individual's name and likeness, unless the alleged assailant is at large.

• Limit the name to once per piece as a reference point, never in the headlines and no photo above the fold. Refuse to broadcast/publish self-serving statements, photos, videos and/or manifestos made by the individual. After initial identification, limit the name and likeness of the individual in reporting, except when the alleged assailant is still at large and, in doing so, would aid in the assailant's capture.

• Elevate the names and likenesses of all the victims killed and/or injured to send the message their lives are more important than the killer's actions.

• Agree to promote data and analysis from experts in mental health, public safety, and other relevant professions to support further steps to help eliminate the motivation behind mass murder.

IT'S A MATTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY
No Name. No Photo. #NoNotoriety.

nonotoriety.com

On twitter, Hanson is blaming Muslim immigration for this. Is there no shame?

He's not the only one. The senator for Queensland, Fraser Anning said the attacks highlighted the “growing fear over an increasing Muslim presence” in Australian and New Zealand communities.

Worse than that, he called it 'vigilantism'. Although he wasn't specific about what crime triggered this act of 'vigilantism', just breathing and praying presumably. Bastard.

Sorry, triggered was a unthinking, shitty choice of words.

Hanson and Anning are doing the equivalent of blaming women out at night for rape. Haven't we moved on from that yet?

Just a warning, if your DC use Twitter there are images which show the bodies in the Mosque under #Christchurch.

They believe in White Australia/NZ/West so of course, they won’t stop to think.

Just as I thought, the DM is already humanising the main attacker by calling him the little blonde boy who came from a low income home.

The Mirror ran edited footage from the video, then took it down.

twitter.com/Mirror_Editor/status/1106534340333314048

Lloyd Embley
@Mirror_Editor
For a brief period this morning the Mirror website ran some edited footage filmed by the gunman in Christchurch. We should not have carried this. It is not in line with our policy relating to terrorist propaganda videos

You know the old saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me'? Words like those of Fraser Anning, and Pauline Hanson give rise, legitimacy, and endorsement to the actions of those like Tarrant - the sticks and stones. Words have power, they shape the actions.

My heart breaks for my poor hometown, for the victims of this horrific act of terrorism, for their families and friends, for the Muslim community there as a whole. It is sickening that they have been targeted like this, especially when so many of them have already been through so much. Innocent men, women, and children, just peacefully worshipping their God, as they are fully entitled to do.

Sorry, I'm a bit incoherent.

Kia kaha Otautahi. Aroha nui. Kei te tangi ahau ki a koe.

(Be strong Christchurch. Much Love. I'm crying with you.)

My DH got sent part of the live stream and it is just SHOCKING, UNBELIEVABLE and NOT human. I will never EVER understand how a 'person' can do that to someone and their family 😞

So dreadful and utterly horrifying. Pure evilness to plan and carry out these attacks on innocent people in a place of worship. My sincere condolences to the victims and their loved ones.

Lloyd Embley @Mirror_Editor For a brief period this morning the Mirror website

I hope that somebody is now out of a job - starting with the editor who clearly wasn't being an efficient enough editor this morning.

So tragic. My heart goes out to everyone involved

Fucking hell. Just seen the DM filthy rag headline on Twitter. My blood is boiling yet again today. How can anybody with a conscience work for such an awful publication and still claim to be a journalist.

Just seen the DM filthy rag headline on Twitter.

How can a mid twenties white man suddenly want to kill innocent disguised terrorists people in their radicalisation camp place of worship! He must be mentally ill, influenced abroad ! How could a little blonde boy end up in this al-Qaeda style* massacre! even though he said it's been done on purpose in the name of white supremacy and he was inspired by Trump and Candace Owens

*mentioned by a journalist in Sky News.

Then Sky are as bad as the DM.

NZ Human Rights Commission have shared this.

Kia Kaha New Zealand

This is my home town - in fact both locations were just minutes from where I lived as a child and an adult. Strange thing is that not one person I know in the UK has thought to see if I am affected. It's weird. It's like we are just used to this stuff here. But this isn't an attack on NZ it is an attack on what we represent.

Have been watching the news today in shock.
Utter Cowardly attack.
Nothing but nothing can justify this.
Love to all of the Muslims family and friends affected.

Social media must now be regulated, for too long people have been allowed to use hate speech under the guise of free speech. Enough.

So sad. The attack didn’t make mainstream news, yet if it was a Muslim terrorist it would have been all over everywhere. Two faced media.

A little 3yo boy, who was in the mosque with his dad and brother, is missing.. I hope he's found safe and well, poor lad must be terrified