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Facebook has been forced to restate its live video rules, after footage of a black man being shot and killed by police officers during a routine traffic stop in the US was viewed by millions—before being removed and returned under mysterious circumstances.
The company insists it will only remove a video of someone's death if it has been "used to mock the victim or celebrate the shooting."
Philando Castile’s death at the hands of a traffic police officer while he reached for his driver's licence in Minnesota on July 7 shocked the world, after his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds had the presence of mind to film the immediate aftermath and upload it to Facebook. It was online for about 10 minutes before disappearing for around an hour in what Facebook has insisted was "a technical glitch." He had been stopped for what Reynolds said was "a busted tail light."
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