Why are authorities scrubbing the Texas church shooters social media?

[kpete]

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Sources: TX church shooter now ID'd by authorities; white male in his 20s from outside San Antonio.

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Authorities are now scrubbing his social media; on Facebook in recent days, he showed off an AR-15 style-looking gun.

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I assume you mean scouring, rather than scrubbing.

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No, they’re were scrubbing his Facebook page which has now been deleted

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[greeny2323]

1. I think I've seen this before

I've seen Facebook and Twitter accounts taken down before. In all honesty it is probably a good practice since it will protect all the people mentioned in those feeds.

[uponit7771]

2. Shouldn't his pages be cached somewhere?

[NutmegYankee]

3. I'm sure Facebook provided all files with a warrant.

It was probably taken offline by Facebook per legal request.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Pretty routine. n/t

[jmg257]

5. You mean all the other murderers have their facebook pages intact?

Never realized that.

[ecstatic]

6. No, but they're moving really really fast this time. Nt

[mythology]

7. Better question, why would Joy Reid not know the answer to this?

It's standard procedure.

[RandiFan1290]

8. They didn't do that for the Congressional Baseball Game shooter

They made sure it was open for everyone to see.