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08-30-2016, 02:28 AM
How social media stoked the false shooter panic at LAX
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** shots were fired at the Los Angeles International Airport Sunday night, but if you were browsing Twitter during the evening hours, you may have thought otherwise.*
Los Angeles Airport police ******rs did **t identify a shooter. Those false reports came shortly after officials had arrested a man wearing a mask and sporting a plastic sword in Terminal 7, however.*
"Immediately following" the arrest, according to the airport's news release (http://www.lawa.org/newsContent.aspx?ID=2215), police received reports of an active shooter in Terminal 8.*
"Word spread quickly through the terminals by word-of-mouth, social media, and additional calls were made to Airport Police about an active shooter in other terminals, with some reporting having heard gunshots," the release read.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/lax-shooter-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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** shots were fired at the Los Angeles International Airport Sunday night, but if you were browsing Twitter during the evening hours, you may have thought otherwise.*
Los Angeles Airport police ******rs did **t identify a shooter. Those false reports came shortly after officials had arrested a man wearing a mask and sporting a plastic sword in Terminal 7, however.*
"Immediately following" the arrest, according to the airport's news release (http://www.lawa.org/newsContent.aspx?ID=2215), police received reports of an active shooter in Terminal 8.*
"Word spread quickly through the terminals by word-of-mouth, social media, and additional calls were made to Airport Police about an active shooter in other terminals, with some reporting having heard gunshots," the release read.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/lax-shooter-social-media/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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