Respectfully, I don't share your assessment of the seriousness of the crime. You seem to be weighing the question of whether someone has been harassed or intimidated from the perspective of a "reasonable third party". However, I suspect that the law assigns considerable weight to the question of whether the victim feels intimidated or harassed. For example, you're correct that sharing the gore image is not a direct threat of violence, however I feel certain that the woman depicted in the earlier images taken from the live stream would feel concerned for their safety.

I would also like to clarify one aspect of which you may not be aware. It's very easy to confirm the woman's place of work beyond any reasonable doubt, with images she has posted to other platforms.

I understand that it's unreasonable to say that you specifically or any admins of lemmy.world or any other instance should give up hours of your free time to make a police report.

However, as others in this thread have suggested this incident underlines the limited protections lemmy has against this type of attack and it seems likely that we will see a lot more.

I also respectfully disagree regarding the likelihood that reporting this crime could be useful. It's not a question of "somehow being linked from a random police report". If the victim ever does contact the police, which seems very likely to me, it's extraordinarily likely that a report from lemmy would be identified as being related.

It's not my intention to berate you personally over this, and as I mentioned above I acknowledge that it's unreasonable to expect you personally to take action in this specific case. I am however concerned that Lemmy's federated nature is not well suited to addressing this type of risk to members of our community.