Parkland Students React to New Video of Shooter: ‘STOP SHOWING HIS F***ING FACE’
The student activists from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have two requests: First, don’t show the newly publicized cell phone video of the shooter who killed 17 people at their school on February 18, and second, don’t say his name.
A video the shooter took of himself before the massacre was released by authorities on Wednesday, horrifying people nationwide. In it, the 19-year-old former Stoneman Douglas student boasted he would be the “next school shooter of 2018” and aimed to kill 20 people.
“When you see me on the news, you’ll all know who I am,” he said.
The survivors of the shooting — on both sides of the gun debate — responded swiftly and decisively to the publication of the video, asking that its dissemination be quashed:
I tortured myself & watched videos of the shooter talking about his attack on my school.
Here’s what I’ve gathered:
A great way to stop school shootings is to NEVER MENTION the shooter’s name or give them notoriety. He discussed how the world will know who he is. He wanted this
— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) May 30, 2018
The Parkland shooter’s name is trending #1 in multiple areas because of a video’s release where he said that notoriety is what he wanted… When will people learn?
— Kyle Kashuv (@KyleKashuv) May 30, 2018
I’ve been off twitter for a couple days. First thing I see when I log back in is the person who killed my friends. Please do us a favor and Listen to us when we say we don’t want his Fucking Face plastered everywhere we look, thank you have a good night because none of us will be
— Emma González (@Emma4Change) May 31, 2018
STOP SHOWING HIS FUCKING FACE.
— Vincent Frettoloso (@vfretty) May 30, 2018
I’m not going to watch that video. Please stop sharing that video. If you see someone post something about that video, report it. Thank you.
— Sofie Whitney (@sofiewhitney) May 30, 2018
Do us msd kids a favor and don’t retweet that video. Just dont. We dont ever want to see him again.
— Sheryl (Oli) #neveragain (@tsukkiu) May 30, 2018
His name is trending. Make it stop, please make it stop. Use his prison number, refer to him as the Stoneman Douglas gunman, murderer, say his name backwards for all I care. Just please don’t say his name @wsvn @WPLGLocal10 @CNN @FoxNews and every other news station
— Sarah//surviving warrior (@SarahStricker) May 30, 2018
He deserves no attention. Here’s who does:
Alyssa Alhadeff
Scott Beigel
Martin Duque
Nicholas Dworet
Aaron Feis
Jaime Guttenberg
Chris Hixon
Luke Hoyer
Cara Loughran
Gina Montalto
Joaquin Oliver
Alaina Petty
Meadow Pollack
Helena Ramsay
Alex Schachter
Carmen Schentrup
Peter Wang— Alex Wind (@al3xw1nd) May 30, 2018
Prominent Parkland activist David Hogg had a concrete suggestion for how to deal with the video if it should show up in your midst:
Anytime you see a news outlet post their name tag it with #NoNoteriety https://t.co/Jp0eKy647w
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) May 31, 2018
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