: Twitch officials stated the livestream was taken down within two minutes of the violence beginning.
The perpetrator has faced significant legal consequences in both state and federal courts: buffalo-shooting-uncensored
: Major platforms like Meta (Facebook) and X (formerly Twitter) used "hashing"—digital fingerprints of the video—to automatically identify and block copies, but users often found ways to bypass these filters. Legal and Judicial Outcomes : Twitch officials stated the livestream was taken
The perpetrator livestreamed part of the attack on the gaming platform Twitch using a camera mounted to his helmet. buffalo-shooting-uncensored
: Despite the quick removal, users recorded the footage and re-uploaded it to other platforms. One copy on the site Streamable was viewed over 3 million times before being removed.