the gunman was a white national the. and the fringe internet board that the shooter used remains offline. now both the owner and founder are speaking out but with very different views for the website that s become a magnet. keir simmons has the story. reporter: until a bizarre video set to military music. the el paso shooter posts on instagram not on 8cha8chan. reporter: defending his website. 8chan is an empty piece of paper for writing on. it s disturbing to me that it can be so easily shut down. reporter: 8chan was started forming free speech. it s here that the hate-filled rant by the el paso shooter appeared along with words by the new zealand mass massacre.
you have to tell them where to hold it to prevent gunfire it s a more stress on kids who already have stress. they re going through active shooter drills, the reality of lichlting with life as we know it now in school ultimately it s the parents decision, lesterted a hate-filled rant it s the world we live in kate, thank you very much. tonight the online message board where police believe the el paso shooter posted a hate-filled rant remains off line and we re hearing from the owner and the founder who have very different views about the site that s become a magnet for extremists here s nbc s keir simmons. reporter: tonight in a bizarre video set to military music. notchan reporter: the owner of 8chan, it is disturbing to me that it can be so easily shutdown. reporter: 8chan was started as an anonymous online forum celebrating free speech. but it turned into a bastian of white supremacy.
board that police believe the el paso shooter used moments before the attack remains offline this morning. now, both the owner and founder are speaking out but with very different views about the web site that s become a magnet for extremists. nbc s keir simmons has the story. reporter: in a bizarre video set to military music. the el paso shooter posted on instagram not 8chan. the owner of 8chan, army veteran defending his extremist web site. it is an empty piece of paper for writing on. it is disturbing to me that it can be so easily shut down. reporter: 8chan was started as an anonymous forum, celebrating free speech but turned into a bastian of white supremacy. it s here where a hate filled rant appeared along with words behind the new zealand massacre.
this whole idea of holding people in mexico, and one of the gentleman on the video set if they didn t want me to be back, they would have sent me to honduras. that s kind of an arrogantho attempt or arrogant interpretation of what is going on at the border, is it not? yeah. the president is trying to do the right thing.ry if they want to come to thisan country and do it legal way wait for mexico for a hearing. president trump tried to address this when he said if you are going to internet country illegally we will now let you claim asylum. of course, the aclu sued them, but let me tell you what the aclu did. they put these aliens back in danger. if they were required to go to a port of entryci surrounded by special agents women won t be raped and children not molested. when you said it s okay to enter illegally and claim asylum. these people left the port of entry as you see from thend video last two days with bank rolls criminal organizations. the same one that killed the border pat
the 21-year-old soldier, to see in uniform. he was trying to reach his house, a block away. when bliss stopped him from reaching the street. no sound on the tape. no clear what each party said. you got his permission to cross. when the officer grabbed his week. he urged him not to use force. by then, another officer joined. you can see him tushd to the ground and held down. there is no way to explain the feeling. only god and i know how i felt, he says. first of all, degrading, you are a soldier, serving the country. giving all of yourself. it is degrading. he gets to his feet. he puts it down. the situation appears to quiet down. officers say both have been dismissed the incident is still under investigation. the video set off protests across israel and ethiopian/jewish community.