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    Nasim Aghdam raged at YouTube, but her family is stunned it ended in gunfire

    by Paloma Esquivel, James Queally, Sarah Parvini and Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times Apr 05, 2018 5 minutes

    MENIFEE, Calif._In one video, Nasim Najafi Aghdam refers to herself as a "ninja" before making a series of odd, stunted motions spliced between clips from the reality series "America's Got Talent." In another video, she sports a blond pixie-cut wig while mocking people who choose to eat meat.

    In yet another video, a rail-thin and raven-haired Aghdam says in Farsi that she has no "specific mental or physical disease," but says she lives "on a planet filled with disease, disorders, perversions and injustices."

    For weeks before she opened fire at YouTube headquarters, the San Diego woman made her rage at the video platform clear to anyone who would listen. She believed YouTube was intentionally suppressing her quirky collection of dance, recipe and exercise clips.

    Authorities think that is the likely reason she brought a gun to YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno,

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