: By the time the original was deleted, the footage had already been captured and was being shared across TikTok , Twitter , and Instagram .
Following public outcry and media investigations (notably from Vice and The Verge ), the Internet Archive ultimately removed the video. However, by that point, the damage was done. Copies had already been re-uploaded to less scrupulous sites, peer-to-peer networks, and private servers. The Archive’s initial retention of the video demonstrated a blind spot in its mission: the failure to distinguish between historically significant documentation and indiscriminate replication of real-time suffering . ronnie mcnutt video internet archive