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The ability for somebody who saw the postings, to call somebody, to call law enforcement, to call a mental health professional. call the family. you know, go back to witnesses reported him hurting animals. he posted information about owning guns and doing bad things with it prior to. go back to the buffalo incident at the grocery store. social media posts about going and killing a security guard at the tops market, and finally harkening back to columbine, two individuals there, they planned thei...

Suspect on the the ground taken into custody. police identify the alleged shooter as 22-year-old robert e. crimo iii. a number of social media posts have been uncovered including disturbing music videos. at tack follows a spring of high-profile mass shootings from buffalo, to uvalde, to tulsa, all involving high powered ar-style rifles and robbing residents at a local celebration of their sense of safety and security. >> so this blood shed is happening yet in another american town and if youve n...

Violent. but in this case, it helps them piece it together in hindsight which is not a lot of value when people have been killed. so we as law enforcement have to learn how to take these indications and determine when the indications like this are the real thing. when this person is potentially violent. >> of course thats clearly problematic, isnt it, because the suspect posted these videos on several major streaming outlets and on a personal website. and yet no one appears to have flagged this ...

With this individual, they saw a number of posts, including music animation that one actually depicts or resembles this person conducting a shooting, trying to attack people. obviously very troubling there. i got a note from a law enforcement source as we were trying to gather this information. heres some stuff online, you want to grab this now because were about to take it down. obviously becoming part of that investigation. on its face, you seat troubling signs, obviously, its clearly a person...

And casey jordan, youre a criminologist, a behavior analyst, so often we see warning signs after this, the social media posts of the suspected shooter, but there was, to our knowledge so far, no formal mental health diagnosis here. can you police the whole population for the folks who might want to shoot someone? this is -- thats in effect what folks who make that argument are asking. >> correct. and for everyone like me, who actually went online with the intent of doing some analysis on this yo...

City. right now, the city is highland park. but she says, and im paraphrasing, if this conversation doesnt continue about -- and surrounding stricter gun laws, this will happen again. jim? >> so many americans this morning grappling with that, the fact that as they know with each shooting, the chances increase, it feels like it could be anywhere. josh, there is always talk about were signs missed. what are some of the red flags you learned about? >> the more and more were learning about this sus...

Of just being good at community members and recognizing that somebody might be in distress. seeing something posted online, being a company that runs a social media company and is doing the things that allow for people to report and flag distressful posts and behavior very quickly so that the community, law enforcement, and even neighbors, can do the things to support people before they become so disconnected, so despondent, that they are striking out the community. >> harris: that is so importa...

Foreign terrorist organizations. obviously a number of concerning posts. it would be interesting to know if anybody ever called law enforcement before and if not, why not. >> jim, lets talk about the law enforcement response. obviously police were there because it was a parade. i assume they were not in tactical gear, how do you deal with a sniper? what was the response as far as you can tell? >> well, it looked pretty good from what i could tell. the bicycle officers were moving around pretty q...

Warning of something like what happened yesterday? i mean, if you tried to even surveil every young man who has, at some point, a violent fantasy or who says something or posts something with some violence on the internet, youd be completely lost. thats millions and millions of people. how -- how do -- is there any technology, is there any way that the social media companies can get their arms around this? i cant imagine that we would tolerate government surveillance of that sort of magnitude. w...

A few miles from the parade route the next town appear they took him into custody in the middle-of-the-road, around 6:30 yesterday evening. police identified the gunmen as robert crimo the third. he grew up in his community for highland park beauties in his early 20s and i previously posted disturbing videos on social media including one depicting the aftermath of what looked like a school shooting, several of those concerning social media posts have since been removed for the question we have t...