YouTube Shooter Was Angry About Demonetization

The New York Daily News reports:

Suspected YouTube shooter Nasim Aghdam drove more than 500 miles from San Diego to reach the tech giant’s San Bruno, Calif., headquarters because “she was angry,” according to her father. Ismail Aghdam feared his daughter had a bone to pick with the video company and spent the weekend trying to reach her by phone. She never picked up and he reported her missing Monday, he told the Mercury News.

The Aghdam family soon learned she was about 25 miles from the YouTube complex when cops in the Silicon Valley hub of Mountain View found her sleeping in a car around 2 a.m. Tuesday. It would be another 10 hours before she unleashed a short-lived rampage that wounded three people. The elder Aghdam told the San Jose paper he tried warning Mountain View police officers that she might be headed to the video company she “hated.”

NBC News reports:

Aghdam, who police said was a 38-year-old San Diego resident, claimed on her social media accounts that YouTube was discriminating against her videos, many of which focused on animal rights and veganism, mixed in with bizarre musical parodies. Youtube filtered my channels to keep them from getting views!” Aghdam wrote on her website.

“There is no free speech in real world & you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system. Videos of targeted users are filtered & merely relegated, so that people can hardly see their videos!”

Aghdam’s family told NBC News that she was a longtime YouTube user who felt she had been cheated. YouTube “stopped everything and now she has no income,” her father, Ismail Aghdam, said in a brief phone interview.

The Daily Beast reports:



Following reports of a shooting at YouTube’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon, a Republican congressman almost immediately speculated that the perpetrator “could be” an undocumented immigrant. Appearing on the Fox Business Network to discuss immigration policy, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) was asked by host David Asman to pivot to discussing the shooting in San Bruno, California.

The congressman’s take was to connect the shooting—without a shred of evidence—to the Bay Area’s liberal immigration enforcement. Rohrabacher then continued: “Would anyone listening to you right now think, ‘Well, this certainly wouldn’t be an illegal immigrant there’? Well it could be!” He ranted that “any illegal in this state should be sent back whether he’s a criminal or not.”