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S6 Ep243: YouTube Mayhem: The YouTube Headquarters Shooting

S6 Ep243: YouTube Mayhem: The YouTube Headquarters Shooting

FromOnce Upon a Crime


S6 Ep243: YouTube Mayhem: The YouTube Headquarters Shooting

FromOnce Upon a Crime

ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
May 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

A young woman who creates a YouTube channel to advocate for animal rights and veganism becomes disgruntled with the social media platform when she feels she is being targeted for discrimination. But, no one imagined that her anger would spiral into a random act of violence.

Resources:
“Sleeping in Car and Visiting Gun Range: How YouTube Attacker Spent Final Hours” by Daisuke Wakabayashi, Matthew Haag and Elizabeth Dias for The New York Times, April 4, 2018.
MVPD Statement Regarding Officers’ Interaction with Woman Responsible for YouTube Shooting, City of Mountain View News Details.
“YouTube shooter was angry about company’s “Policies and Practices’: The Latest” by Aric Jenkins, Katy Steinmetz, and Mahita Gajanan for Time Magazine, April 4, 2018.
The Case Files: Nasim Najafi Aghdam by Virginia Simmons, blog post dated March 25, 2021, Ontic.com.
Clip from Mountain View Police Department bodycam footage can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmpjNUWpLBU


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Released:
May 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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