Posted on 04/04/2018 10:42:53 AM PDT by b4its2late
San Bruno, CA — Chaos erupted in California on Tuesday as a woman, now identified as 39-year-old San Diego resident Nasim Aghdam, walked into YouTube’s headquarters and began shooting people with a handgun. Aghdam wounded three YouTube employees in her rampage before reportedly turning the gun on herself and ending her life.
According to a spokesman for the San Francisco General Hospital, a 36-year-old man was in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman was in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman was in fair condition.
During the shooting, multiple employees inside the building were updating their family members in real-time using social media. One of those employees, Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi, a company product manager, posted on Facebook that he was OK before giving his eyewitness account.
Abdul-Kafi explained to his friends and family—incorrectly thinking Aghdam was a male—that “He had a shooting mask on, full body armor and was calmly walking and firing a handgun.” He added, “We jumped to the floor then ran as fast as we could.”
Employee Dianna Arnspiger also noted that the shooter had her face covered and was using a “big huge pistol.”
“It was a woman and she was firing her gun. And I just said, ‘Shooter,’ and everybody started running,” Ms Arnspiger said.
Zach Vorhies, 37, a senior software engineer at YouTube, said he also saw the shooter out in the courtyard where she was yelling, “Come at me, or come get me.”
Adding to the mystery surrounding the case, Aghdam was reportedly a prolific YouTuber and an animal rights activist. According to reports, Aghdam ran a website with an alleged manifesto that targets YouTube for censorship and demonetization of her video content.
She wrote on her website, nasimesabz.com,
Be aware! Dictatorship exists in all countries but with different tactics! They only care for personal and short-term profits and do anything to reach their goals even by fooling simple-minded people, hiding the truth, manipulating science and everything, putting public mental and physical health at risk, abusing non-human animals, polluting the environment, destroying family values, promoting materialism and sexual degeneration in the name of freedom and turning people into programmed robots!
She goes on to quote Adolf Hitler saying, “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it.”
The rest of her message targets YouTube and censorship.
There is no free speech in the real world and you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system. Videos of targeted users are filtered and merely relegated so that people can hardly see their videos.
As TFTP as reported, YouTube has since started cracking down on channels whose content they deem “extreme,” and, in some instances, pulling funding for the simple reason that the channel is too small. Aghdam was apparently affected by one of these. Though Aghdam’s main English channel had more than 5,000 subscribers, according to ABC 7, many of her videos appeared to be demonetized.
Her father confirmed this Tuesday when he told the Bay Area News Group that she was angry at YouTube because it had stopped paying her for videos she posted on the platform.
YouTube had “stopped everything” and “she was angry,” Ismail Aghdam said in a telephone interview with the local news agency.
According to Ismail, he reported his daughter missing on Monday after she stopped answering the phone for two days. Oddly enough, police were apparently in contact with his daughter the day of the shooting as they found her sleeping in a car around 2 am the morning of the shooting.
What’s more, Ismail reportedly warned police that his daughter may be trying to attack YouTube because she “hated” the company.
As WTOP reports, Mountain View Police spokeswoman Katie Nelson confirmed officers located a woman by the same name asleep in a vehicle asleep in a Mountain View parking lot on Tuesday morning. Ms Nelson said the woman declined to answer further questions but would not be drawn on whether police were warned Aghdam might go to YouTube.
Adding even more mystery to this shooting is that even though Aghdam’s website was rife with anti-YouTube sentiment, and her father reportedly warned police about his daughter’s “hatred” of the company, law enforcement said the shooting was being investigated as a domestic dispute.
The Free Thought Project will keep reporting on this situation as it unfolds.
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Not much “mystery” to this.
Well, I’m still waiting for them to release her NRA membership number...
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So, police failed again. Not only in dealing with her after being warned, but in their response. How many would have not died if workers had CCW and were armed?
First description of the firearm I have seen. No doubt it was an “assault” handgun.
She’s got the Vegan glazed eyes.
Turn it around and try it on, see how badly it fits:
An unstable honky guy’s family calls up the cops, “Our boy might just go and shoot up YouTube —he’s pissed as hell over getting de-monitized..!”
The cops contact the guy at 2 am, sleeping in his car within a couple miles of YouTube:
NO ARREST..?
Not in a million freakin’ years.
Some people in the Bay Area have EXTRA RIGHTS.
I know. She’s a left bag of nuts.
There was only so much the police could have done, even though they found her in the car. I may have helped had they questioned her in a detailed manner, but the truly psychotic are able to lie convincingly enough to look sane and sound reasonable.
My sympathies for the people shot and the family of this woman. No parent (in the American culture) expects their daughter is going to end up in this manner.
She comes across as obsessive, self centered and entitled.
YouTube does not have to allow your posts to make money Be it fair or not fair, they are a private company.
Good point
Looks like they let it slide. Probably because she had an accent and didn’t want to look bad.
Looks like a friggin maneguin.
I used to believe that the police could not protect us, now I believe they will not protect us.
“She’s got the Vegan glazed eyes.”
Yeah, I really hated that song in the ‘80s.
haha
/sarc
Yes, this is the first it's been mentioned that I know of also and I've been looking. What all the sudden no one is interested in the type of weapon used? I don't think so. This is deliberately being kept quiet because it does not support the need for an assault weapons ban and bump stock ban. The last thing the commie left media wants to talk about is that a mass shooter did NOT use an assault rifle with a bump stock.
Another “Thank you, Islam” moment.
Pistols are always “BIG” and “HUGE” when they are pointed at you in anger.
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