On Wednesday, the white gunman who fatally shot 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket last year in a racially motivated attack with the goal to “kill as many blacks as possible” was sentenced on state murder charges to life in prison without parole. The shooter, Payton Gendron, 19, still …
Read More »Buffalo Shooter Pleads Guilty to State Charges in Racist Attack
Payton Gendron, the now-19-year-old gunman who has been accused of killing 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo in May has pleaded guilty to all 25 state charges against him in an Erie Country court on Monday, Nov. 28, The New York Times reports. Gendron was indicted by a …
Read More »Democrats Are Mounting a Response to the Great Replacement Theory
House Democrats will ask their chamber on Wednesday to condemn last month’s massacre at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. They will also ask them to rebuke the great replacement theory, a white supremacist conspiracy the 18-year-old gunman cited as motivation for the killing spree that left 10 Black …
Read More »'Grocery Stores Ain't Safe': Buffalo Rapper Benny the Butcher Addresses Hometown Massacre on New Track
Benny the Butcher is raising money for the families of the 10 victims of the racially motivated mass shooting in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. On Monday, the rapper released his track “Welcome to the States” addressing the massacre and the need for reform. “Ideologies formed on hate,” Benny …
Read More »The Buffalo Shooter Recorded His Deadly Attack. Twitter Let the Video Go Viral
On Monday, a new Twitter user with the handle @BuffaloSh00ting, the screen name “Buffalo Supermarket Video,” and a bio reading “Buffalo Supermarket Video, Get it here,” popped up on the platform. The account’s avatar was a depiction of Red Skull, the Nazi supervillain from the Marvel universe; its header image …
Read More »Families Remember the People Stolen by the Buffalo Shooting
A lot was taken from the Buffalo, New York, community on Saturday, May 14. Peace. Security. Ten fathers, mothers, grandmothers, grandfathers, neighbors, and community members. The racist attack at Tops Supermarket and the man who traveled across the state to murder Black people couldn’t wrest one thing from victims’ family …
Read More »High-Ranking Republican Pushes 'Great Replacement' Rhetoric Two Days After White Supremacist Mass Shooting
Elise Stefanik is the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. She is a member of the party’s leadership, in other words, elevated last year by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. She’s also one of a growing contingent of conservatives who have brushed up against the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, a …
Read More »Body Armor Helped the Buffalo Shooter Carry Out His Rampage. This Bill Could've Banned It
A “good guy with a gun” tried to stop the massacre at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, but was foiled by the assailant’s bulletproof vest and helmet. When an 18-year-old began his alleged white supremacist rampage Saturday afternoon, a security guard employed by the market, former policeman Aaron Salter, shot at …
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