«Breaking News» Father of slain reporter fighting Google to remove daughter’s death video from web

Andy Parker is working with lawyers and law students at Georgetown University to force Google, which owns YouTube, to completely remove video of his daughter's murder from their sites

The father of a murdered reporter whose shooting death during a live TV interview was shared widely on social media almost four years ago, is still battling one of the world's biggest tech companies to scrub his daughter's gruesome homicide from it's servers.

Andy Parker's daughter, Alison Parker, and her cameraman, Adam Ward, were the two WDBJ-7 reporters in Roanoke, Virginia who were fatally shot by Vester Lee Flanagan, a disgruntled former co-worker, on August 26, 2015.

Flanagan had been fired by the station two years prior and blamed both Parker and Ward in part for his largely failed journalism career. 

He recorded the shooting using a Go Pro camera and later shared the footage on Twitter before shooting himself while sitting in his vehicle on the side of a road following a highway police chase.

Andy has demanded Google, which owns YouTube, completely take the video off its platforms. Now he's working with lawyers and law students at Georgetown University to force the issue.

Local news reporter Alison Parker, 24, was fatally shot during a live TV interview in Roanoke, Virginia on August 26, 2015. The shooter recorded the incident with a Go-Pro camera before uploading the footage to social media

Andy Parker (right) says Google has the technology to take down the video of his daughter Alison's death,  but won't do it, claiming the tech giant is 'creating a dark web that is hiding in plain sight'

'Google has the technology to take it down but they won't do it,' Parker recently told the New York Post. 'They are creating a dark web that is hiding in plain sight.'

Parker said he's never seen the horrific video of his daughter's demise, but he and people he knows have been harassed by trolls and others on social media who claim the shooting was a hoax.

YouTube primarily relies on its automated censors and on users to flag content that may be obscene. The company pointed out that it updated its policy on hosting videos that falsely label tragic mass killings as conspiracies.

'Our hearts go out to the families who have suffered incredibly tragic losses due to violent events,' a YouTube spokesman told the Daily Mail in an emailed statement.

'We've heard feedback from victims' families and that is why we updated our harassment policy in 2017. Since then we've removed flagged videos that target the victims or their families and claim these events were "hoaxes"… and we've worked on training our machine-detection systems to flag videos to our reviewers. We do not allow ads to run on videos about tragic or sensitive events.'

Andy Parker recently wrote a book titled 'For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety,' to address the issue of firearms violence

Andy Parker (center) has addressed the issue of gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C, but he also says the dissemination of mass shooting videos on social media inspires copy cat killers to do the same thing

Andy Parker was quick to address Congress about the issue of guns less than a month after his daughter's death. He recently published a book, 'For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father's Fight for Gun Safety,' which addresses the issue of firearm violence as well.

But on the heels of the mosque massacres in Christchurch, New Zealand, which were also live streamed on social media, the dutiful dad also said he sees the dissemination of these mass murders online having a causal effect that leads to future tragedies.

'We want Google to take down the video because it encourages other whack jobs to do the same thing,' Parker said of the video of his daughter's shooting. 'Whenever these guys get attention, it just creates copycats and others come out to attempt the same thing.'

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Andy Parker is working with lawyers and law students at Georgetown University to force Google, which owns YouTube, to completely remove video of his daughter’s murder from their sites

The father of a murdered reporter whose shooting death during a live TV interview was shared widely...

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