2019 Christchurch mosque shootings / Brenton Tarrant
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Speaking to the court today: story from AP.
Interesting quotes: "Answering questions from a Crown lawyer and from lawyers representing him, Tarrant, 35, said his mental health had deteriorated due to conditions in prison, where he was held in solitary confinement with limited reading material or contact with other prisoners.
By the time he pleaded guilty, Tarrant said he was suffering from “nervous exhaustion” and uncertainty about his identity and beliefs. He had admitted to the crimes a few months before his trial was due to begin because there was “little else I could do,” he told the court."
"Hawes also put to Tarrant that there was little evidence in the documentation of his behavior by mental health experts and prison staff that he was in any kind of serious mental crisis. Tarrant suggested that signs of mental illness he displayed hadn’t been recorded and that at times he had sought to mask them.
“I was definitely doing everything possible to come across as confident, assured, mentally well,” he told the court. Tarrant’s behavior “reflected the political movement I’m a part of,” he added. “So I always wanted to put on the best front possible.”"
I'm most surprised by the fact they released any image of him.
Also Reuters:
"I did not have the mind frame or mental health required to be making informed decisions at that time," Tarrant said.
"I think the issue is, did I really know what I wanted to do or what would be a good idea? No, I didn't actually ... I was making choices, but they were not choices made voluntarily and they were not choices made rationally due to the (prison)conditions.""
NZ Herald: "In an affidavit to the court, he claimed he was psychotic and nearly insane while in custody, and that there would have been signs for Corrections officers to be able to see.
“Obviously, my mental health deteriorated over time from quite early on,” he said.
Crown prosecutor Barnaby Hawes said that a special panel was convened to monitor his wellbeing, and put it to Tarrant that surely his allegedly distressed mental state would have been reported by Corrections officers who were monitoring him 24/7.
“No, they wouldn’t want to incriminate themselves,” the gunman replied.
“They’re not fools.”"
"In terms of why he waited so long to launch an appeal, Tarrant said his reasons were “multifaceted” but essentially he needed to wait until he was of “sound mental state” to proceed."
NZ Herald says he spent 5 months in solitary. Notes he does have a mental illness, but is unspecified: "The man also found the terrorist was suffering from a mental health condition, but not one that impacted his ability to give his lawyers instructions or be able to plead."
This one has a vid where he talks.
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LACUNA
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Lawyer quoting Nelson Mandela. He surely asked for this.
"Around that time, Tarrant had also denounced his manifesto, his lawyer said." what I'm getting from this and the other coverage (saying that he did feel remorse for some time, but he regretted this) is that for a while in prison he did abandon his ideology but then he came back to it.
Also: "Their submission also shone a light on Tarrant’s time in prison - including that, for a while, he wasn’t allowed butter because he was using it to cover the cameras watching him."
He seems like a very annoying prisoner.
According to the NZ Herald: "He had been assessed as being “at risk” for the past five-and-a-half years, but argued this was simply an excuse to deprive him of his basic needs and resulted in him being held in conditions which he described as “torturous and inhumane”. - at risk, meaning suicide risk.
"Around that time, Tarrant had also denounced his manifesto, his lawyer said." what I'm getting from this and the other coverage (saying that he did feel remorse for some time, but he regretted this) is that for a while in prison he did abandon his ideology but then he came back to it.
Also: "Their submission also shone a light on Tarrant’s time in prison - including that, for a while, he wasn’t allowed butter because he was using it to cover the cameras watching him."
He seems like a very annoying prisoner.
According to the NZ Herald: "He had been assessed as being “at risk” for the past five-and-a-half years, but argued this was simply an excuse to deprive him of his basic needs and resulted in him being held in conditions which he described as “torturous and inhumane”. - at risk, meaning suicide risk.
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Shadow The Hedgehog
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The CCTV footage of him shooting at someone with his shotgun after driving away from the first mosque without the news watermark. Some random redditor posted it around 2 years ago, but it got removed because it contained the stream audio. I downloaded it back when it was still up, and I just remembered I have it so here you go:
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