“Do you want to help terrorists? Because if you do, sharing this video is exactly how you do it,” he told CNN on Friday. Steve Moore, a retired supervisory special agent for the FBI and CNN legal enforcement analyst, said the disturbing video could inspire copycats. We would strongly urge that the link not be shared,” police said. “Police are aware there is extremely distressing footage relating to the incident in Christchurch circulating online.

In a statement, New Zealand Police asked social media users to refrain from sharing copies of the video that have proliferated on several online platforms following the livestream. “New Zealand Police alerted us to a video on Facebook shortly after the livestream commenced and we quickly removed both the shooter’s Facebook and Instagram accounts and the video,” spokesperson Mia Garlick said in a statement on Friday. Soon after the video was livestreamed, a spokesperson for Facebook New Zealand said they had removed the video from their platform. He exits the mosque and fires at another woman before he drives off in his car.

The footage then appears to show the shooter enter the mosque again where victims can be seen lying on the ground. The gunman then walks outside into the street where he shoots at more people on the sidewalk before returning to his car for to retrieve another rifle. The video was apparently livestreamed on Facebook for 17 minutes by one of the alleged attackers and shows him entering one of the mosques in Christchurch and repeatedly shooting victims. New Zealand Police are urging the public not to share a video that appears to show a gunman opening fire on worshippers during a deadly mass shooting that killed at least 49 people and injured dozens more at two mosques during Friday prayers.

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