Man With Gun During Standoff Streams It Live on Facebook

Gun-wielding Tampa man who had stopped taking psychiatric medication streams his four hour stand off with swat team on Facebook Live

A man who had been issued a Florida mental health warrant Facebook live-streamed a dramatic four-hour stand off with police, while he hid in his house wielding a gun.

Tampa police were called to Adam Mayo's property on May 9 after his mother became concerned for his safety, a spokesman told Mail Online.

Judy Mayo had alerted police after her son had told her he had stopped taking his psychiatric medication and had sent her photos of a gun. 

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Police: Hey Kid, Stop Using Twitter During Standoff

Social media has increasingly become part of crisis and hostage situations.  The role social media ranges from messages being posted by the subject leading up to the incident, the subject and victims posting during the incident as well as the police, and finally the police sharing information post-incident. 

Unfortunately people also post live updates of incidents that can interfere with police operations.  What is also unfortunate, as this story shows, is people do not seem to realize the impact their tweets or status updates can.  

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Social Media & Hostage Crisis Negotiation

ACR Crisis Negotiation Section co-chair Jeff Thompson, along with Lt. Mark Lowther, presented "Social Media & Hostage / Crisis Negotiation" at the annual Cyberweek conference.  Cyberweek is  a week-long series of webinars, discussion forums, radio shows, twitter chats, and more all concerning conflict resolution and technology.