Social media deactivated during police standoff with woman
http://wtop.com/maryland/2016/08/social-media-deactivated-during-police-standoff-with-woman/
In the midst of a five-hour standoff that turned deadly,
Facebook granted an emergency request from the Baltimore
County Police Department to take offline the social media
accounts belonging to a woman who wielded a shotgun at
officers. Baltimore County Police officers shot and killed
Korryn Gaines, 23, after she barricaded herself inside her
Randallstown apartment with her 5-year-old son and pointed a
shotgun at officers attempting to serve an arrest warrant.
Police Chief Jim Johnson said Tuesday that the department made
the emergency request to have Gaines' social media accounts
suspended after she posted videos online showing the standoff.
People who saw the postings, Johnson said, responded by
encouraging her to not to comply with police. Videos posted
on Facebook and Instagram appeared to show Gaines, who was
black, talking with police in the doorway to her apartment and
to her son during the standoff. In one, she asks her son what
the police are trying to do.
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