https://apnews.com/article/buffalo-supermarket-shooting-442c6d97a073f39f99d006dbba40f64b

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A gunman opened fire with a rifle Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in what authorities called a “hate crime and racially motived violent extremism,” killing 10 people and wounding three others before being taken in custody, law enforcement officials said.

The suspect was identified as Payton Gendron of Conklin, about 200 miles southeast of Buffalo in New York state, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The officials were not permitted to speak publicly on the matter and did so on the condition of anonymity. The suspect was being questioned Saturday evening by the FBI, one of the officials said.

Officials said 11 of the victims are Black and two are white. The shooting happened in a predominantly Black neighborhood a few miles (kilometers) north of downtown Buffalo.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A gunman wearing military-style clothing and body armor opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing at least 10 people before being taken into custody Saturday afternoon, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.


Details on the number of additional people shot at the Tops Friendly Market and their conditions weren’t immediately available. The two officials were not permitted to speak publicly on the matter and did so on the condition of anonymity. The suspect was being questioned Saturday evening by the FBI, one of the officials said.

Investigators believe the gunman may have been streaming the shooting through a camera affixed to his helmet, one of the officials said. The video showed the gunman, dressed in military gear, pulling up to the front of the store with a rifle on the front seat and then pointing the rifle at people in the parking lot as he exited the vehicle and opening fire, the official said.

It also shows the suspect walking into the supermarket and shooting several other victims inside, the official said. One of the victims was a recently retired police officer who was working as a security guard at the store, according to the official.

One of the officials cautioned the investigation was in its preliminary stages and that authorities hadn’t yet discerned a clear motive, but were investigating whether the shooting was racially motivated.

The supermarket is in a predominately Black neighborhood, about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of downtown Buffalo. The surrounding area is primarily residential, with a Family Dollar store and fire station near the store.

Buffalo police confirmed the shooter was in custody in a tweet, but did not identify the suspect. Police officials did not immediately respond to messages from the AP seeking comment.

Witnesses reported the gunman was wearing military-style clothing in addition to the body armor, one of the officials said

Braedyn Kephart and Shane Hill, both 20, pulled into the parking lot just as the shooter was exiting. They described him as a white male in his late teens or early twenties sporting full camo, a black helmet and what appeared to be a rifle.

“He was standing there with the gun to his chin. We were like what the heck is going on? Why does this kid have a gun to his face?” Kephart said. He dropped to his knees. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.”

At the White House, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden is receiving regular updates on the shooting and its aftermath.

“The president has been briefed by his Homeland Security advisor on the horrific shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon. He will continue to receive updates throughout the evening and tomorrow as further information develops,” she said, adding the president and first lady were praying for the victims and their loved ones.

Tops Friendly Markets released a statement saying, “We are shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.”

Police closed off the block, lined by spectators, and yellow police taped surrounded the full parking lot. Mayor Byron Brown and Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz were at the scene late Saturday afternoon, gathered in a parking lot across the street from the Tops store and expected to address the media.

More than two hours of the shooting, Erica Pugh-Mathews was waiting outside the store, behind the police tape.

“We would like to know the status of my aunt, my mother’s sister. She was in there with her fiance, they separated and went to different aisles,” she said. “A bullet barely missed him. He was able to hide in a freezer but he was not able to get to my aunt and does not know where she is. We just would like word either way if she’s OK.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul tweeted that she was “closely monitoring the shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo,” her hometown. She said state officials have offered help to local authorities. The Erie County Sheriff’s Office said on social media that it ordered all available personnel to assist Buffalo police.

Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefed on the shooting, Justice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley said.

The shooting came little more than a year after a March 2021 attack at a King Soopers grocery in Boulder, Colorado, that killed 10 people. Investigators have not released any information about why they believe the man charged in that attack targeted the supermarket.

:'(

So sick of this shit. Blood is on all their hands. Why the fuck is Tucker still breathing?

but was radicalized into believing he had it bad. Fuck Tucker Carlson.

http://twitter.com/andrewdonovan/status/1525640845591986176?s=21&t=qC-h4UFZAc2GAjHkBeI_sA

Why haven't the Boogaloo Boys, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, American Identity Movement faced RICO charges?

What does the system think will happen if one group of people continues to get away with killing members of black society? Not letting this murderer off by referring to him as radicalized. He was an adult that is fully aware of his actions.

For those wondering this crime reeks of incidents Boogaloo Boys hope for. Not blaming them but it's something they legit wish for.

...of that stuff Elon and his partners bought Twitter for now step up.

is how it will end.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/14/nyregion/east-side-buffalo-shooting.html

we have spent talking about the boogie man of CRT when Major Media Outlets and Politicians can talk about Replacement Theory without repercussion.

God I would love to catch Tucker Carlson.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

every sound bite phrase they put out there, whether it’s the “Great Replacement”, “reverse racism”, “tax and spend”, “fake news”, “socialism = communism”, “the big lie”or if they are co-opting and bastardizing progressive terms like CRT, BLM, or antifa…

Pretty easy bunch to manipulate.

want to believe.

What they do is take the good points that progressives make and turn them on their head and make them acts on them. "You are the Real Racist!"

My big gripe is we too often engage these debates and discussions like they are good faith discussions when they are not. We legitimize so much of what they say by taking the time to debate them.

IDK what the proper response in the face of it. I just want folks to be able to recognize it for what it is.

We should never have debated whether Obama was born in the US, we should have from day one said that's racist as fuck.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

concept that then gets amplified in their echo chambers. Oversimplifying and just throwing anything they don’t like into that brand category.

And completely agree on the Obama argument. It was at that point they realized they could literally throw any crazy conspiracy theory out there and progressives would legitimize it by arguing it point for point as if it wasn’t completely disingenuous to start with.

Fox News has packaged this shit up and served it like its real news and not opinions

Hell, even their business channel is mostly propaganda with a stock ticker in the corner. The “radicalized left” is responsible for inflation”

what????

"they are BETTER at branding".

That's falling into the very trap I am describing. It's not a matter of, if progressives and democrats were better at branding, we could somehow beat their racist branding.

We can't beat these people with better branding or better arguments. You can expose their hypocrisy and they either move the goal post or shrug because they don't give a shit.

They made this whole big thing about how a President in the last year in office shouldn't be able to nominate a supreme court justice. And we took that argument at face value and argued it up and down and debated it on the merits. Then when they were in the exact same position, they shrugged and just appointed who they wanted.

They were the pro cop party until insurrectionist started beating cops on the head.

The pro gun rights party until Philando Castile was shot with his legally owned gun.

They get to call themselves the pro-life party but they are for the death penalty and cops shooting black people.

You could say people buy into these lies because they are better and branding but I am saying people buy into because it aligns with their beliefs and makes them feel good about their own shitty ideas.

There isn't any amount of branding and marketing that will somehow make them no longer racist.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Great points.

def think think they are better at it than Dems but yeah.. no matter how Dems/MSNBC packages their shit it wont stop these nuts.

they'll only ever feel shame from their own side.
Like when Ted Cruz called January 6th a terrorist attack and had to go on Fox and self-flagellate for it.

How are you going to even fix your lips to say that phrase and not realize the people you're criticizing with that phrase are just going to think it sounds like a cool upgrade they wish they could buy for their COD Warzone character?


They were printing up the t-shirts and co-opting the slogan seconds after he said it and they know what he meant when he said it and don't care. Same with Let's Go Brandon, where they're getting shamed for saying it because it's legitimately childish (just say Fuck Joe Biden) but it just doesn't matter because their shame is less important than your big mad energy. If you're mad, how can they be ashamed?


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

...to be viewed as "free speech" anymore, so....now they just want to follow through on all the "speech"

Cause, NO ONE will view Fox, Newsmax, and OAN as "speech" anymore.


Not if they keep acting on all the "speech"

38 pages are devoted to body armor...

Until a mod clears someone to post it, don't post it

Treating this seriously like fm 2003, that white supremacist field training manual.

...to carry out these shootings. Kinda like Remy off Higher Learning, except it's probably not a couple of broke neo nazis doing the work, but rather someone with time, money and resources. Like alleged here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-fbi-knew-oklahoma-bomb-plot-suspect-is-schizophrenic/

Just a thought.

and most were over 60.

as proof it wasn’t racially motivated.

like all the Black victims were just a coincidence.

but i also heard he trained his gun on a couple white people who were trying to hide and then apologized to them.

so, it's not unreasonable to assume the 2 white people who died were not intended victims.

i mean, we all know why he went there. he wanted to kill black people.

a retired police officer.

but the shooters body armor...

which is why there's a lot of talk about the body armor aspect of this whole thing now.

he had a plate carrier and plates along with a ballistic helmet.

hitting me hard today:

Ruth Whitfield went to visit her husband every day in the nursing home where's lived for eight years, one of her sons, Garnell Whitfield, a former Buffalo fire chief, told reporters.

He said he doesn’t know how to tell his father that his primary caretaker is gone.

from here:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/relatives-buffalo-shooting-victim-ruth-whitfield-break-tears/story?id=84752163&cid=social_twitter_abcn

He was live streaming the whole thing and the word was plain to see.

https://www.businessinsider.com/buffalo-shooting-suspect-had-n-word-written-on-gun-2022-5

Some white folks will go all out to make you think racism doesn't exist.

what the fuck else do they want as proof it was racially motivated??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcV1lnwQXXM

just saw the date.

point taken though.

not only the instinctual need to dismiss that the Roof shooting wasn't racial...

but the going on about how absurd it is to people to even assume it was racially motivated just because he's white and they're black.. that we shouldn't jump to conclusions about the shooter's motivation before we have all the facts..

which even in itself wouldn't have been as bad if they didn't call their fucking segment 'Attack on Faith' and bring in their token pastor to try to sell it.

lying about the motivation no matter how obvious. they're good at creating narratives.

I hear a lot of people going off on that claim but haven't seen the claim anywhere (not including anime profile pic twitter accounts).


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

but its the same who say stuff like “if the race was reversed the leftist media would make sure not to..”

I haven’t seen where any white people were killed.

might shoot back and fuck him up, pulling up at a supermarket during that day, why not pull up to the club at night coward?

The biggest deterrent for some other snotty 18 year old to copy this is if he saw this dude get riddled with bullets

but instead, they are politely handcuffed, taken away and given a fair trial..

these kids are fucking cowardly punks. they don't want to die. they want to do this shit and live to feel good about it and watch the fall out

but alas, we live in white supremacist police state that isn't the least bit interested in killing other white supremacists most of the time

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I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, and we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody wants us to say, is wasting our time on this Earth - C. Adichie

is to hear them explain the why and get a full vision of where and from who they were influenced.

But when these pieces of shit publish 100+ page manifestos ahead of time they are doing that work for us.

So yeah. Fill 'em with bullets.

I don't speak to provoke. I speak because I think our time is short and each moment that we are not our truest selves, and we say what we do not mean because we imagine that is what somebody wants us to say, is wasting our time on this Earth - C. Adichie

and spends every last one of those days in a Federal, Pound me in the ass, prison

the Aryan Brotherhood

He had three targets picked out. Multiple weapons with multiple ammo types for a prolonged attack. Wrote about suicidal thoughts leading up to the day because of his guilt over lying to his family about what he was up to, and how he expected to die an extremely violent death and WANTED it to be violent to make a point about the movement (I haven't seen what he thought that point was, maybe he never figured that out).


Then he gets down to it and like most cowards who are really just trying to make a name for themselves and live in infamy, he gets on his hands and knees and preps for a lifetime of fan letters and prison beatings.


More about the family coming out makes it pretty clear he had a fairly hands off, suburban, everything'll turn out OK 'cause he's a white guy upbringing. He wrote about playing off his parents' guilt over his depression and being able to use that to, uh, convince them he was still going to school? About how he stored his weapons and ammo for months in his room and even his siblings didn't ever notice them? How he was in some weird silver coin trading ring to make the money for his ammo and nobody was ever like, "Yo Payton, what's up with all the coins?"


His parents might not have played a significant role in what their kid set out to do, but it's probably an even worse look that they were housing this kid and just presumed he was the same generic failson their friends were raising and didn't notice any of the weird shit he was up to. I felt relatively free to get up to shit as a kid but even my parents knew when to drop some subtle nod they knew what dumb thing I was doing on the internet or whatever to shame me into stopping or realizing I'd have always been embarrassed to be doing it if somebody I knew knew what it was. It's starting to sound like this kid got to do absolutely whatever he wanted with his day between waking up and falling asleep and his parents just assumed it'd be uninteresting to them.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

He wore a hazmat suit to school and made a threat a year ago. His family had to be blind to miss what he was doing, even if it was a hands off approach.

Which can take the form of dirlection of duty or willful ignorance. But I don't think you grow up with that much anger with black people without hearing it in your home.

After the school incident, the family had a responsibility to figure out what the heck he was up to. What sites he was visiting. What he was doing with his own money or money they gave him.

I think they should really look into what was going on in that household.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/buffalo-shooting-payton-gendron-covid-b2080541.html

"Sandra Komoroff, a cousin of the suspect's mother said she believed Covid-19 and the paranoia surrounding it fuelled..."

“He was very paranoid about getting Covid, extremely paranoid, to the point that his friends were saying he would wear the hazmat suit ,” Ms Komoroff, 68, told The New York Post.

“And then he got Covid just a few weeks ago... He went to family functions with a respirator mask on. He totally wasn’t going to get Covid and then he got Covid,” she added.

Ms Komoroff claimed that although their family has been vaccinated against the coronavirus infection, Mr Gendron “bought into the fear of Covid”.

“That’s the only way to say it. And when you’re home all day on the internet, you’re missing out on human contact. There’s a lot of emotions and a lot of body language you’re not getting when you see their face,” she said.

to see what sticks

lefties with their covid hysterics and masks, mixed with CRT making him believe he was a white oppressor drove him to this violent paranoia.

I'm looking at them mad sideways after reading his.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2022/05/17/payton-gendron-parents-buffalo-shooting/

>I'm looking at them mad sideways after reading his.


Definitely

The cat damnnnn

my mother in law was like “when your kids are teens.. you better snoop around their room”

damn… but at the same time, I mean… while under my roof I can’t have my kids hiding in plane sight. If something feels off I’m invading all that privacy.

Didn’t mean they get a pass at all, I meant that they clearly turned a blind eye to everything he was doing at BEST and that’s still a terrible job of parenting a kid that was doing the goofy shit he was doing, let alone me trying to sneak down to the heater closet after midnight to smoke weed thinking the smell would stay trapped down there

If I were ever a parent I’d imagine myself being pretty hands off but this story just reads like willful neglect of parental duties because they couldn’t imagine their perfect suburban lives resulting in all that, not THEIR little Payton

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

Thankfully she wasn’t there that day.

but I’m not sure I’ve ever been more angry over a “news” story. I want to see Tucker Carlson.

I got no record. I think I could avoid jail time, and I'd say he whispered the n word at me. It would be worth it.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I’m don’t see the difference
Fucker Carlson and Trumpster are catalysts for mass shootings
They’re being quoted in the manifestos
They should get those RICO charges too IMO.