This Wednesday Vester Lee Flanagan (AKA Bryce Williams) filmed himself shooting Alison Parker, Adam Ward, Vicki Gardner. Parker and Ward passed away. In addition to posting the film to social media, he made constant updates to his social media accounts regarding the shooting. According to the tweets that he had made he shot Parker and Ward for revenge. Flanagan said that Parker had made racist comments towards him, and was also upset that Ward had gone to human recourses after having worked with Flanagan once.
After this tragic event, people are accusing social media for various things. It's obvious that the killer was proud of the killings, and by watching and re-watching the videos we are almost giving him what he wants. Technology is definitely a helpful and useful media, but sometimes it can be used in inappropriate ways. The films posted online on the shootings were rather shocking, but otherwise they had no real value. What did we gain by watching the videos? There was no mystery regarding the nature of the shooting. There was no part that the public needed to see. In my opinion, the video should have been taken down, at the very least for the family's sake.
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