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terrorism charges against him as well.
“Sean Patrick Maloney did not even give me a heads up before he went on Twitter to make that announcement. And I think that tells you everything you need (to) know about Sean Patrick Maloney.” President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden paid their respects to the 10 lives lost at a Buffalo supermarket, which was a community gathering place for so many people.
DEADLY MASS SHOOTING IN BUFFALO
A racist mass shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo left 10 Black New Yorkers dead and three other people injured after a white man allegedly drove hours from his Southern
Tier home in order to target the majorityBlack community. He allegedly livestreamed the shooting online after planning the attack for months. Posts online apparently made by the alleged shooter included a lengthy manifesto that references the racist “great replacement”
conspiracy theory, which posits that people of color are systematically replacing white people and displacing their electoral influence. The alleged shooter has been indicted on first-degree murder charges, although federal investigators are also looking into bringing hate crime and domestic
STILL INCALCULABLE In late May 2020, as the United States approached 100,000 lives lost to the relatively new COVID-19 pandemic, The New York Times commemorated by name those lives on its front page, declaring the loss “incalculable.” As the country approaches an unfathomable new benchmark – 1 million lives lost in the pandemic – the Times again tried to capture the depth of sorrow experienced by those victims’ loved ones on its May 15 cover.
– Rep. Mondaire Jones, on Maloney’s decision to run in the district that Jones current represents based on the new draft maps, via Politico
“This was what caused the death of many people over the weekend: simply wearing the skin they are in.” – state Senate Majority Leader Andrea StewartCousins, speaking about the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, via Politico New York
Immediately, Democratic lawmakers and other officials called the Buffalo shooting a racist act of domestic terrosism that targeted Black New Yorkers. Gov. Kathy Hochul called out social media platforms in the immediate aftermath of the shooting for allowing the video of that attack to be streamed online and for permitting the proliferation of white supremacy online. President Joe Biden visited Buffalo soon after the shooting as well, where he similarly spoke out against white supremacist extremism as calls for stricter federal gun laws were rekindled. Hochul announced several bills and executive orders meant to combat both online extremism and to tighten the state’s already strict gun control laws. She required through executive order the state police to file for extreme risk protection orders under the state’s Red Flag Law in instances where it could be needed after the law enforcement failed to invoke the law with the Buffalo shooter last year. Hochul also set up a new unit focused on domestic terrorism within the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services in order to track the spread of white supremacist ideologies online.
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/GETTY IMAGES; LEAH HERMAN, HOUSE CREATIVE SERVICES; DARREN MCGEE/OFFICE OF GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL; MICHAEL APPLETON MAYORAL PHOTOGRAPHY OFFICE
BIDEN, HOCHUL COMFORT VICTIMS
