The video and Tarrant's screed were quickly banned in New Zealand but can still be found in dark corners of the internet. The Christchurch attack was livestreamed for 17 minutes and viewed by hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook before it was taken down. Gendron, who surrendered inside the supermarket, has pleaded not guilty and was jailed under a suicide watch.Īfter eventually pleading guilty, Tarrant, an Australian citizen, in 2020 became the first person in New Zealand to be sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, the toughest sentence available.
In a 180-page diatribe, Payton Gendron said he subscribed to the same racist "great replacement" theory that the New Zealand gunman Brenton Tarrant wrote about in a similar 74-page screed.Īnd like Tarrant, Gendron allegedly painted slogans on his gun and used a helmet-mounted camera to livestream his attack on the internet. People wait outside the Al Noor mosque following a mass shooting March 15, 2019, in central Christchurch, New Zealand.
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