What we know about Christchurch mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant

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Christchurch mosque gunman Brenton Tarrant worked as a personal trainer at Big River Gym in the northern New South Wales city of Grafton, the ABC can reveal.

was Tarrant.

She said he worked at the gym after he finished school in 2009 until 2011, when he left to go travelling overseas in Asia and in Europe."He worked in our program that offered free training to kids in the community, and he was very passionate about that.""I think something must have changed in him during the years he spent travelling overseas," she said.His travels also took him to North Korea where he was photographed in a tour group visiting the Samjiyon Grand Monument.

 

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*gunman meticulously plans attack that will make him as viral as possible so everybody will know his name, face and purpose* : So this is what he looked like as a toddler - look at that haircut! - and this is what he looked like when he was helping youth groups...

He was also socially inept and a sleaze when it came to women. Ring any bells.

Everyone report this tweet. They’ll have to take it down.

I do not want to know his name. It should not appear in headlines. There are guidelines on this.

It will be important to understand how someone who was apparently so community minded and seemingly normal was radicalised. If we can understand that then we may start to unlock real solutions and win this war

We don’t need to know anything about hi

Not acceptable.

what you need to call him is a terrorist.

No no no! Don't speak his name. I do not want any aspect of him or his life to pollute the air. Tell me about the people whose lives have been stolen. Their family, their hopes. Tell me about them. Honour their memory, not his.

I don't want to know anything about this person. In my eyes he is not human

We don’t care about him. We care about the 40+ innocent lives he took. Why don’t you go figure out something about them?

So you’ve tried to humanise the grub that did this with the way this article is written! Why? What about the innocent people who’ve died. Maybe tell us where this maggot will live out his days and perhaps advocate that these hate filled parts of the internet are forever removed.

He is non existent. Stop giving him any of the attention he craves.

I clicked looking for answers... trying to understand what would drive anyone to kill innocent people as if playing an online video game. Telling me about his cute blond hair as a toddler or adult career as PT does nothing of the sort. This is surreal, . What’s going on?!

False Flag no one died . I dare any one of you to show me a picture of one dead person or even two injured people because I already seen that guy walking with a bloody elbow. And as for the guy with blood on his shirt I lost more blood the other morning when I cut myself shaving.

We don't care about his life, the only thing that needs to be known about him is what a horrible monster he is.

Humanizing terrorists is a no no. Would think you would get that. But no.

don’t spread his name

Nope. I already know everything I need to know about that POS. Do better, ABC.

call him what he is: a terrorist

“he was a good guy except for that time he travelled to NZ to brutally murder and injure people”. You better do an equivalent article about every person who was kneeling before their god begging for their lives while this “personal trainer from Grafton” gunned them down.

He’s👏🏻 not👏🏻 a 👏🏻gunman👏🏻he’s👏🏻 a👏🏻 terrorist 👏🏻

𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬 - Christchurch New Zealand Mass Shooting at Mosque via 7NewsSydney Christchurch ChristchurchMosqueAttack ChristchurchAttack jacindaardern jacindaardern

Who gives a fuck

How dare you make this monster sound like a ‘good bloke’. I’ve never been so angry at a piece from ABC. It’s the same tone that the news uses to talk about a ‘loyal, loving father’ that murders his family because he’s sad. STOP TALKING ABOUT WHITE MEN WHO ARE MONSTERS LIKE THIS!

Nope. Don’t care. Delete please.

Do NOT publish names and photos of terrorists. It only gives them a satisfaction that they don't deserve and may encourage others. Just don't do it, nobody needs to know these details.

Do you really think it's appropriate to name the gunman / gunmen of the Christchurch mosques massacre? Shame on you for giving them the notoriety. Just what they want. Name victims. Shame terrorists. Don't elevate right wing extremists.

A freaking puff piece for a terrorist? Why are media agencies failing so badly at covering this?

we don’t want to know about him. he’s a terrorist, stop giving them fame. we wanna know about the people who’s lives that disgusting being took away. do you know anything about them?

Following on from this. What's more likely to occur, an increase in 1) islamic terrorism ie another paris style attack, german bus attack or Surabaya bombing, or 2) a decrease in islamic terrorism?

Shame on you, . You know exactly why this is the wrong thing to do.

Don’t give him a face and a name. You are only giving him what he wants

A true hero with guts who tries to defend human civilazation&dignity. A man who refuses to be harmed and depressed by Islamic force. Respect

I don’t give a fuck about this guy and his life. I want to know more about the people he callously gunned down. Srsly abc you’re better than this.

This kind of reporting is part of the problem. The failure to identify any white murderers as murderers, and just leads to the ‘he seemed ok to me’ which gives the perfect cover for these fuckwits to flourish.

what's with this article? a puff piece attempting to humanise a cowardly terrorist by talking to his boss from a decade ago? seriously?! something troubling has happened to aunty in recent years. the LNP have a lot to answer for here, and i dont just mean in regard to to the ABC

What we know is that he is a murderer. That's all. Why are you trying to humanise him? He's a killer. A sick, sad cowardly man who chose to massacre innocent men, women and children. Talk about the victims, they deserve our words, time and heart, not this perverted animal.

Torture him.

By publishing his name and details, you give him notoriety. Can we just refer to them as fuckwit 42?

Who describes themselves as ‘a regular white man’? Didn’t read past there. If someone used that expression to describe themselves to me I’d walk away. Alarm signal.

What the hell is this ABC? Are you kidding? We don’t need to see his family photos or hear about what he did for fucking schoolies.

We don't WANT to know anything else about him! We know enough already. He was a disgusting, racist terrorist who violently killed innocent people. ENOUGH!

Tell us about the victims - their names, their hopes, the children they leave

STOP USING ITS NAME. It is a TERRORIST. That's what it is. That's what it will be remembered as nothing else A TERRORIST. Reporting it's name is giving the TERRORIST notoriety. Exactly what it wants. We don't want to see what this TERRORIST looks like. USE YOUR BRAIN. FFS

iansmith_adl I fiucking hate this report from the ABC!! I love the ABC but humanising this animal is not in anyone's interest. We don't need to know this shit!

What is this rubbish? Maybe write a story when you have something to report.

What we know is he’s a terrorist who helped slay 49 people. What he did before today is innefectual.

Prayers and thoughts go out to the innocent victims of this senseless attack. 🙏🏼

TAKE THE STORY DOWN. Stop identifying the scumbag. 🤬

I gave you the benefit of the doubt. All news media should follow people like PhillyD on YouTube. Do not share the names of these terrorists. Do not give them the satisfaction of the world knowing who they are and what extremists views they have.

Let the truth be known !

Dear ABCmediawatch mediacan you please tell your compatriots why i am not clicking and they sjould not be putting up these type of pieces

katherinefeeney I. Don't. Care. Who. He. Is. He is a terrorist and nothing more.

Who are the others names who were involved in this terror attack ?

I don't want to know anything about him other than he is a terrorist !!

You spelt terrorist wrong.

reporting this is not in the public interest nor the greater public good - what a poor editorial decision

Well there’s something else we know about him, he’s a despicable bigoted coward. I’m ashamed to be of the same nationality as this monster.

Stop. Humanising. This. Person. He's a mass murderer that is all we need to know.

Read the zackfox pinned tweet folks

PoS. Don't humanise him.

Personally I do not want to know anything about him. Let him rot in obscurity

Do us all a favour and shut down all the broadcasting around these terrorists. I have no interest in knowing a single thing about these cold blooded killers. Make your focus those who lost their lives not on those who instigated it

You are better than this! Do not humanise or give notoriety to a terrorist and mass murder. Unrelated background is neither newsworthy nor in the public interest.

I thought the proper neomarxist reporting is: 'a man killed men' with no other details. How come in this instance name, foto, nationality, motive, even address and that it is terrorism is all immediately known?

Nothing and it must remain that way.

Don’t talk about him. No one cares. Talk about the victims. We care about them.

I don’t want to know anything about this hateful mam!

'Tarant described himself as a 'regular white man''... there's your red flag right there.

Shame on you - don’t be SkyNewsAust , be smart, be sensitive and don’t idolize terrorists!

What pathetic reporting. Tell the truth. He is a nazi who was motivated by the nazi conspiracy theory WhiteGenocide that is pushed by all far-right groups & people like Senator Fraser Anning.

Don't publicise his name, don't tell us who he is, aside from being a hate-filled mass murderer. Tell us about the victims, because they deserve to be named and spoken about.Only them.

He sounds fantastic ABC. I am sure you are making all the victims’ friends and family feel much better about the whole thing. Good job.

Don't give him air! Focus on the victims!

“He worked in our program that offered free training to kids in the community, and he was very passionate about that.' 'I think something must have changed in him during the years he spent travelling overseas,' He loved puppies and ice cream?! FTW!!

North Korea .. Who else went there .. John Pedesta & where was he this we......we fuggen know guys !? G'Day RitaPanahi rowandean cc DonaldJTrumpJr mpsmithnews almostjingo

we do not need to know any f--king thing about this subhuman organism!

We don’t want to know.

Lee Harvey Oswald

Jesus Christ ABC, do better.

His curls as a child are relevant facts?

Stop stop stop stop naming terrorist now!!!!!!!! You’re still doing it!!!!

A puff piece on a killer?

Delete this. Now.

You are part of the problem.

Just finished watching Hotel Mumbai at the Cinema & get out to hear yet another horrendous attack has been perpetrated in Christchurch The world has run mad

Sure let's humanise the guy who gunned down 40 innocent people.

The North Koreans had access to him. Hmm. The same people that killed a guy in plain sight using two psychologically manipulated women, & got away with it. Somebody needs to check very carefully how long he was there and if ever alone, away from other westerners for a long time.

Don't tar all personal trainers by association with this terrorist and killer.

'White Male Australian Terrorist'. Change your narration and tone

Do you know what? I don't care. I don't want to know anything about him. All I want to know is that he and how he got radicalised is being dealt with. that's what I want to know.

The only thing I need to know is when he’s going to prison and for how long.

He is the biggest shame of Australia!

We don't need or want to know. He is nothing to us. May he rot in hell.

I'm listening to cover on ABC NewsRadio. Why is your journalist referring to the murderer as 'Mr Tarrant'?

Don’t use his name.

No thanks 🙅🏻‍♂️ Thought you were better than that.

ABC just can't help themselves. 🤮🤮 it props up a narrative so well. Can..not..stop..revealing.. arghh just one more post.

Please don’t identify him. It’s what he wants.

He was clearly a mentally ill lone wolf

This article should read “He’s a cold blooded killer” and leave it at that.

I don't give a Brad Pitt about him. He can rot in prison without a second thought.

Do NOT do this we are NOT in the business of making ppl like this famous. Remove name of terrorist now

Can we please not name him? The best thing we can do is not mention his name. This coward does not deserve to be remembered by anyone.

Don't name him. It's just giving him the notoriety he desires

Shame ABC

Please don't publish his name and face. It's what he wants.

Do we need to name him? Can't we just say 'prick du jour' or something?

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