The shooter’s apparent account was reported by a user on Tuesday, about 24 hours after the shooter was named by police.
and remains publicly viewable. After fleeing Carleton’s store, Mag.Pi, by foot, Ikeguchi was killed in a shootout with police.
“After reviewing the available information, we want to let you know TravisIkeguchi hasn’t broken our safety policies,” the email, which appears to be automated, reads. “At minimum it signals ‘we don’t really care about the violence that’s incited on our platform’ to essentially an endorsement of it,” Caraballo, who has researched hate speech against the LGBTQ community, said. “I don’t know how clearer Twitter could be at this point that there’s no level of anti-LGBTQ hatred that they won’t tolerate.”Many of the tweets from Ikeguchi’s apparent account include references to Christianity and anti-LGBTQ sentiments dating as far back as 2018.
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