On Saturday, May 14, 2022, in the United States, a man opened fire at a convenience store in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 people and injuring three others, two of them seriously. Authorities condemn a new racist attack by a white supremacist.
An investigation was launched by the FBI, who claimed during a press conference that they were investigating the lead at the same time “a hate crime” and a “Cases of Racially Motivated Violent Extremism”.
Here’s what we know about this shooting as of this Sunday, May 15, 2022.
10 people killed, 3 injured, including two seriously
Filming took place Saturday afternoon at the Tops supermarket in the city of Buffalo. Buffalo Police Chief Joseph Gramaglia said the assault rifle-armed killer first shot four people in the supermarket parking lot and killed three of them before moving on, trading and committing carnage.
There, a security guard, a retired police officer, shot the attacker, but the attacker, protected by a bulletproof vest, was unharmed and shot the security guard.
Eleven of the victims were black and two were white in this predominantly African American neighborhood of Buffalo.
The alleged killer: an 18-year-old white supremacist
When police arrived at the scene, the young man pointed his gun at him at neck level before surrendering to police, Commissioner Gramaglia continued.
Local police and judicial authorities, picked up by several American media outlets, portray the alleged shooter as an 18-year-old white man. It was equipped with a “assault weapon”, a bulletproof vest, military-style outfit, helmet and camera to broadcast his crime live over the internet.
According to information from several American media, picked up by France TV Washington on Twitter, the shooter broadcast the shooting live on the Twitch platform, where he declared himself a white racist and anti-Semite.
The New York Times also reports that the shooter allegedly aired a program “manifest” racist content from 180 sites on the internet. The young man would expose his plan to kill black people, leaning on racist theories like that “great replacement” and would repeatedly point to attacks like that by Brenton Tarrant against two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch in 2019, which killed 51 and injured 49.
Local newspaper Buffalo News also revealed that a horribly offensive, racist, and taboo word for black people in the United States had been painted on the gun’s barrel.
An attack broadcast on Twitch
The attacker, who was wearing a camera, began broadcasting his crime on the Twitch platform, which explained itself “devastated” and promised a Zero tolerance for all forms of violence”.
According to the social network, the content has been removed ” two minutes “ After it started broadcasting, the attacker’s account was “permanently suspended” and “All accounts likely to redistribute this content will be monitored.”
Screenshots of the shooting have been shared on social media, with some appearing to show the gunman holding a gun and standing over a corpse at the supermarket, Reuters reports.
Joe Biden denounces a “terrorism” of “repulsive white nationalist ideology.”
On Saturday night, US President Joe Biden issued a press release, available on the White House website, in which he clearly denounced himself “a racially motivated hate crime” and a “internal act of terrorism” committed “in the name of a repugnant white nationalist ideology”.
It is about one “cruel killing by a white supremacist”, New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul thundered on Twitter.
For his part, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, an African American, denounced the fact that the killer had traveled several hours to commit his crime in a predominantly black Buffalo neighborhood.
This murder is reminiscent of two others: a racial massacre on August 3, 2019, when a 21-year-old far-right man killed 23 people, including eight Mexicans and “Hispanics” in El Paso, Texas; and when on June 17, 2015, a white supremacist killed nine African American worshipers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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