“Our hearts are with the community and all who have been impacted by this terrible tragedy,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement. “It was straight-up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community … coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us.” “This was pure evil,” Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said at a press conference. It’s a baseless notion that’s been widely promoted on the far-right fringes, from the neo-Nazi marchers of Charlottesville to the Fox News broadcasts of Tucker Carlson.Īuthorities were still working to confirm the authenticity of the document on Sunday, the Associated Press reported. The document touts earlier racist rampage killings, and pushes the conspiracy theory that white people are facing extinction and are being “replaced” by immigrants and people of color.
I simply became racist after I learned the truth.”
“ I was not born racist nor grew up to be racist. In it, he talks about becoming radicalized after reading a 4chan forum in his “extreme boredom” during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Gendron allegedly published an 180-page manifesto online that is ugly and unhinged, even for a suspected mass murderer. As he continued to do that, he dropped to his knees still appearing as if he might shoot himself.” Police ultimately handcuffed Gendron and was being questioned by FBI as of Saturday night. “He was standing there in his military gear with his weapon to his chin, looking like he was going to blow his head off,” witness Braedyn Kaphart told the Buffalo News. The market is located in a predominantly Black neighborhood.When police arrived, Gendron first threatened to shoot himself. It wasn’t immediately clear why Gendron had traveled about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from his Conklin, New York, home to Buffalo and that particular grocery store, but investigators believe Gendron had specifically researched the demographics of the population around the Tops Friendly Market, the official said. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said. All others, the document said, were “replacers” who should be eliminated by force or terror. The manifesto posted online and purportedly written by Gendron, outlined a racist ideology rooted in a belief that the United States should belong only to white people. “It’s just crazy.”Ī preliminary investigation found Gendron had repeatedly visited sites espousing white supremacist ideologies and race-based conspiracy theories and extensively researched the 2019 mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the man who killed dozens at a summer camp in Norway in 2011, the law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AP. You can’t even go to the damn store in peace,” Buffalo resident Yvonne Woodard told the AP. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just too much. Kathy Hochul, a Buffalo native, to demand the technology industry take responsibility for its role in propagating hate speech. But the shooting - the latest act of mass violence in a country unsettled by racial tensions, gun violence and a recent spate of hate crimes - left local residents shattered. Meanwhile, federal authorities were still working to confirm the authenticity of a racist 180-page manifesto that detailed the plot and identified Gendron by name as the gunman, the law enforcement official told the AP. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said the then-17-year-old was brought in for a mental health evaluation afterward. The shooter, identified as Payton Gendron, had previously threatened a shooting at his high school last June, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. “This individual came here with the express purpose of taking as many Black lives as he could,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at a news conference Sunday. GALLERY: Buffalo supermarket mass shooting scene
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