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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by TLightful on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:52AM (#22267900)
Call the police immediately.
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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by pantalaimon on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:01PM (#22268785)
But the person was already dead.
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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by TLightful on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:35PM (#22271222)
Highly likely but are you certain of that?

Are you certain a crime has not taken place?

A death has happened. PR strategy would be the furthest thing from my mind - but I'm a human, not a corporate entity.

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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by LatteLazy on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:43PM (#22270007)
Plus it would be reasonable to assume at least one of the many live watchers already did that...
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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by nomel on Friday February 07, 2020 @04:43PM (#22271291)
I don't see how that would be useful. Police are local and random internet streams are not usually traceable to a location, which is all they would be interested in.
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Re:After a livestreamed suicide, TikTok waited to call police by ryanlol on Friday February 07, 2020 @02:56PM (#22270176)
The timeline in the story seems to confirm that assumption.
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