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The perpetrator livestreamed part of the attack on the gaming platform Twitch using a camera mounted to his helmet.

The 2022 Buffalo shooting was a racially motivated mass shooting that occurred on May 14, 2022, at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Ten Black people were killed and three others were injured by an 18-year-old white gunman, Payton Gendron . The Attack and Uncensored Livestream buffalo-shooting-uncensored

: Twitch officials stated the livestream was taken down within two minutes of the violence beginning. The perpetrator livestreamed part of the attack on

: Despite the quick removal, users recorded the footage and re-uploaded it to other platforms. One copy on the site Streamable was viewed over 3 million times before being removed. The Attack and Uncensored Livestream : Twitch officials

The perpetrator has faced significant legal consequences in both state and federal courts:

: Major platforms like Meta (Facebook) and X (formerly Twitter) used "hashing"—digital fingerprints of the video—to automatically identify and block copies, but users often found ways to bypass these filters. Legal and Judicial Outcomes