Man who filmed murder of Paris police officer says he regrets putting it online

The man whose amateur video of a Paris police officer’s cold-blooded murder shocked the world now regrets sharing the footage online, saying he never expected it to be broadcast so widely.
Engineer Jordi Mir told The Associated Press he posted the video out of fear and a ‘stupid reflex’ fostered by years on social media.
‘I was completely panicked,’ he said in an exclusive interview across from the Parisian boulevard where the officer was shot to death by terrorists Wednesday morning.

The short film immediately became the most arresting image of France’s three-day-long drama, which began with a mass killing at the headquarters of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and ended Friday with the death of four hostages and the three terrorists in two separate shootouts.
‘I had to speak to someone,’ Mir said. ‘I was alone in my flat. I put the video on Facebook. That was my error.’
Mir said he left the video on Facebook of the murder of Ahmed Merabet for as little as 15 minutes before thinking the better of it and taking it down.
t was too late.
The footage had already been shared across the site and someone uploaded it to YouTube. Less than an hour after Mir removed the video from his page, he was startled to find it playing across his television screen.
In its unedited form, the 42-second film shows two masked gunmen – brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi – as they walk toward a prone police officer, later identified as 42-year-old Merabet.