Posted on Jun 15, 2022
DOJ charges Buffalo gunman with hate crimes, and says he apologized to a white victim
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Payton Gendron is now facing numerous counts of federal hate crimes and weapons charges related to the May 14 deadly assault on a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
Gendron is accused of killing 10 Black people, and wounding three other people — one Black person and two white people.
The federal complaint lists 26 criminal counts against Gendron, 18, including 10 counts of a hate crime resulting in death.
The complaint alleges that Gendron's "motive for the mass shooting was to prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar attacks."
The gunman live-streamed his actions on the internet.
Payton Gendron is now facing numerous counts of federal hate crimes and weapons charges related to the May 14 deadly assault on a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
Gendron is accused of killing 10 Black people, and wounding three other people — one Black person and two white people.
The federal complaint lists 26 criminal counts against Gendron, 18, including 10 counts of a hate crime resulting in death.
The complaint alleges that Gendron's "motive for the mass shooting was to prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar attacks."
The gunman live-streamed his actions on the internet.
DOJ charges Buffalo gunman with hate crimes, and says he apologized to a white victim
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Hate was quickly seen as the motive for the mass shooting
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, local officials described it as "an absolute racist hate crime," noting that the gunman drove some 200 miles from his small hometown to Buffalo.
Those suspicions were then largely confirmed when an online screed attributed to Gendron emerged that embraced white supremacist ideology and mentioned a plan to target Black people in their own community.
In addition to the threat of racist extremism in the U.S., the Buffalo shooting — and the Uvalde school shooting that followed soon afterward — gave new urgency to calls for new gun laws.
Across the country, there have been 267 mass shootings so far this year, according to the independent Gun Violence Archive."
..."Hate was quickly seen as the motive for the mass shooting
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, local officials described it as "an absolute racist hate crime," noting that the gunman drove some 200 miles from his small hometown to Buffalo.
Those suspicions were then largely confirmed when an online screed attributed to Gendron emerged that embraced white supremacist ideology and mentioned a plan to target Black people in their own community.
In addition to the threat of racist extremism in the U.S., the Buffalo shooting — and the Uvalde school shooting that followed soon afterward — gave new urgency to calls for new gun laws.
Across the country, there have been 267 mass shootings so far this year, according to the independent Gun Violence Archive."
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