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Prior to going on the shooting spree, Tarrant made a number of meme references, including “subscribe to PewDiePie” and playing a Serbian military song from the ‘90s called “Remove Kebab” popularized by alt-right YouTubers. The entire sequence of events in the Facebook livestream plays out in first-person, leading observers on Twitter and elsewhere to draw comparisons to the infamous Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 “No Russian” mission. His guns and ammo magazines are covered in the names of the victims of terror attacks in the West. Independent journalist Nick Monroe discovered the attacker’s Twitter account at (now suspended -, archive.fo), where he posted images of the firearms and gear used in the attack. The mass shooter advertised the livestream, as well as a manifesto titled “The Great Replacement,” to 8chan, a laissez-faire imageboard that is frequently in the news over various drama. (New reports now back this up, saying at least 40 dead: see bottom of article for updates.) A gunman - now identified as Brenton Tarrant - has massacred unarmed people in a mosque in Christchurch’s Hagley Park (New Zealand), and the gruesome events were livestreamed on Facebook by the shooter himself.Įarly reports suggest that at least six people have been shot, but the livestream of the incident show dozens of casualties within and around the mosque.
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