A small minority of us might be scanning the footage in desperate hope to establish the whereabouts of our loved ones.īut plenty of people are today looking at the Christchurch video for no real good reason-just because the draw of the drama and the apparent safety of viewing it from miles away, behind a computer screen. Some of us, like journalists and police, are professionally obliged to view distressing imagery to try to discern valuable new information, whether for investigation purposes or to better inform debate.
Dozens of copies of what appears to be footage from a helmet-mounted camera are circulating on the darker corners of the internet and are being persistently posted on more mainstream platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, which don't always manage to catch the video before it goes up.
"This isn't just the men who have been killed but this has an impact on families and we know that everyone wants to pull together to assist because that's how the collective paradigm works, everyone just activates whatever support they can offer and they make sure that that support is offered to the families," he said.Horrific videos like the one posted by the Christchurch mosque shooting suspect Brenton Tarrant are geared to appeal to the morbidly curious, and appeal it did. "A lot of the people that I go to church with are young fathers who are social workers and youth workers and I think some particular questioning became what else could we have done, how can we continue to support these communities and even the young man who undertook the shootings as well, what are the, I guess, the holes in the community or system that we need to assist and fix and help to facilitate."Ĭhurches and marquees had been offered for the families' use, he said.Ĭollins said it was important the community were supporting one another, and that many people were pulling together to help the families. 4 people remain in hospital after Auckland CBD shooting
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