At least ten people have been killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. Now, Joe Biden has broken his silence.
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Ten people have been killed in Buffalo.
At least ten people have been killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said that 11 of the 13 people who were shot were black.
County Sheriff John Garcia said:
“This was pure evil. It was straight up racially-motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community.”
New York Governor Kathy Hochul added:
“It is my sincere hope that this individual, this white supremacist who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And heaven help him in the next world as well.”
The suspect has been named as 18-year-old Payton Gendron.
Gendron has been arraigned and charged with first-degree murder charges hours after the shooting, to which he pleaded not guilty.
President Joe Biden has since broken his silence.
The president said: “We still need to learn more about the motivation for [the] shooting as law enforcement does its work, but we don’t need anything else to state a clear moral truth: A racially motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation.”
“Any act of domestic terrorism, including an act perpetrated in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology, is antithetical to everything we stand for in America. Hate must have no safe harbor. We must do everything in our power to end hate-fueled domestic terrorism.”
Horrific news.