Twitter Restricts US Lawmaker's Account Over School Shooting Post

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Congresswoman from Georgia, US. (File)

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Twitter has temporarily restricted Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional account after the US lawmaker tweeted a graphic that referred to a "Trans Day of Vengeance" following the school shooting in Nashville.

Greene, a member of the House of Representatives, posted a screenshot of the notice on her personal account on Tuesday which said some of her congressional account's features were being temporarily suspended for violating Twitter's rules.

"My Congressional account was suspended for 7 days for exposing Antifa, who are organizing a call for violence called 'Trans Day of Vengeance.' The day after the mass murder of children by a trans shooter," tweeted the Republican from the state of Georgia.

Twitter's trust and safety head Ella Irwin said it had to "sweep" the platform to remove more than 5,000 tweets and retweets of the graphic.

"We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them," Irwin tweeted.

"'Vengeance' does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok," she said.

"The graphic was reported by a high number of users across our platform yesterday and yes, I'm sure the timing of that was due to heightened sensitivity to the language, given the tragic events in Nashville," Irwin added.

"We always evaluate tweets driving a sudden spike in user complaints."

Six people, including three children, were killed in the Nashville school shooting on Monday.

The shooter Audrey Hale, who was killed during the attack, was identified by police as a female, and said the shooter had used male pronouns on social media.

Greene has been a vocal critic of transgender rights and last year supported a proposal to criminalize the provision of gender-affirming healthcare for minors.

Twitter has previously suspended Greene over her tweets about vaccines in violation of its Covid-19 misinformation policy, and also for false claims about election fraud.

 

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‘Let's go, let's go’: Bodycam footage shows moment cops shot Nashville school shooter dead

 

The six-minute video shows armed police entering The Covenant School in Nashville as they hunt for shooter Audrey Hale, who shot and killed six people, including three nine-year-old children.

 

Body camera video grab image courtesy of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department released on March 28, 2023, shows suspect Audrey Hale (face blurred) lying on the ground after being shot by police officers at the Covenant School building, Nashville (AFP photo)

By India Today World Desk: Dramatic body camera footage of police officers responding to the shooting at a Christian school and taking down the suspect has been released by the Metro Nashville Police Department.

The six-minute video shows armed police entering The Covenant School as they hunt for shooter Audrey Hale, who shot and killed six people, including three nine-year-old children, after breaking into the building with three loaded weapons.

The footage shows the police team, equipped with assault rifles, systematically checking classrooms on the ground floor as sirens and alarms sound throughout the building. "Metro Police," officers yell.

"Let's go, let's go," another officer yells.

The following visuals may be distressing to viewers. Discretion is advised.

Nashville Police have released the bodycam footage and it cannot be stressed enough how remarkable this response was. These men are absolute heroes. pic.twitter.com/aOT8IJyH04 — Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) March 28, 2023

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They then pass through an open reception area before identifying gunshots upstairs. This leads the group of five to a balcony area where Hale is gunned down.

Armed with two assault rifles and a pistol, 28-year-old Audrey Hale went on a shooting spree at the Christian grade school, leaving three kids and three staff members dead. Police said she was a former student of the institute and had written a manifesto ahead of the attack.

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Metropolitan Nashville Police Chief John Drake said at the news conference Hale had been under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder. Hale had some sort of weapons training and had amassed a collection of guns by legally purchasing seven firearms in recent years from five Nashville-area stores, said Drake.

He added that Hale identified as a transgender person, and that investigators believe the suspect harboured "some resentment for having to go to" the Covenant School as a child.

The chief declined to elaborate and did not say what role, if any, Hale's gender identity, educational background or other social or religious dynamics might have played. Investigators "don't have a motive at this time," he said Tuesday.

(With inputs from Reuters)

Edited By:

Devika Bhattacharya

Published On:

Mar 29, 2023

 

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