The perpetrator has faced significant legal consequences in both state and federal courts:
: 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. buffalo-shooting-uncensored
: 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 The perpetrator has faced significant legal consequences in
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 Legal and Judicial Outcomes The 2022 Buffalo shooting
The perpetrator livestreamed part of the attack on the gaming platform Twitch using a camera mounted to his helmet.
: Twitch officials stated the livestream was taken down within two minutes of the violence beginning.