On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in Buffalo, New York, United States
Eleven of the victims were African-American, and two were white. The attack was described as an act of domestic terrorism, and the incident is currently being investigated as racially motivated
At approximately 2:30 p. m. EDT (UTC-4), the shooter allegedly arrived at the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue, in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo. The shooter was wearing body armor and a military-grade helmet; armed with three firearms — a modified Bushmaster XM-15 rifle, a Savage Arms Axis XP hunting rifle, and a Mossberg 500 shotgun, the latter two of which were found stored in the suspect's car — and carrying a head mounted camera through which he livestreamed the attack on Twitch.
The gunman shot four people in the parking lot, three of whom died. He then entered the store, shooting eight more people and killing six of them. According to a law enforcement source, the shooter allegedly yelled racial slurs during the incident.
The gun man is not from Buffalo, he had traveled for three and a half hours to the supermarket from his hometown of Conklin.
On his rifle, Gendron had allegedly inscribed a racial slur and the name of a victim of the Waukesha Christmas parade attack, adding, "Here's your reparations."
Did you hear about the white supremacist and anti semetic gun man that murdered 10 people yesterday?
That store used to be under my supervision at my last job. I rarely visited because it was so far away, but I went a couple of times and always had a pleasant experience there. And I went to a Griselda concert last night, they’re from Buffalo, and Westside Gunn had a moment of silence and all that, and he mentioned he was from like 10 minutes away and how it’s the one grocery store for the hood on that side of the city. Breaks your heart. And all we’ll hear is how “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”, or how this was a false flag operation, or some other horseshit. Getting real tough to root for this country, some of our people are just bananas. I’m just at a loss for words and ideas at this point.
Not sure what to think of that. It´s become an international phenomen or the next level of shootings that people stream their shooting. It´s just another shooting that won´t change anything. He´ll go to jail and be forgotten. It´s just sad that people had to die for his "show".
Yeah, I heard about that. Even my friends abroad (tho, I'm also not American, so...) heard about it.
Not surprising.
Gun violence, racism, white nationalism, and fascism are all exponentially rising in the US. Can't say it's surprising given the weird propaganda, regressive policies, and Puritan flailing that's been worsening since the 60s.
I kinda wish the world could just quarantine America behind physical and virtual walls for a bit. Like, still let people out if they want, but especially keep American misinformation and data norms within US borders. Tall order, but I think well-worth the efforts.
I did hear about it. I also heard his reasoning for choosing that location was because of its gun laws. He knew that the people were not going to be armed, and if someone was, they were only going to have 10 rounds and most people under stress cannot hit their intended target.
The white male was arrested. White supremacists who are mass shooters are taken alive while innocent unarmed black Americans are murdered for walking home. All of this is bullshit and needs to change.
Lmao and remember when the same exact buffalo police pushed and elderly man at a blm protest? But watch how they careful escorted a shire supremacist after they murdered 10 people
Iv been saying for a while all they need do to have gun control is enough chaos and blood, to blame guns and the right wingers, especially before November.
Maybe it was some guy off his nut, and maybe it's a false flag who knows.
But I do know as a conservative with body armor, who has owned a rifle etc
I would never harm innocent people, and no conservative with the gear that I know personally woud ever do so.
My friends and I carry concealed fully licensed because of people like him. And if I had been there I like to think a few people would still be alive.
Guns aren't the issue, it's the people behind the gun.
He should be subjected to such extreme, prolonged, medieval pain and terror that he begs to die. Broadcast it so that people will see what happens to premeditated mass murderers of innocents. Leave his corps out to rot and be eaten by scavengers. Then throw what's left of his bones in a pig sewage pond. Make it a felony crime to have a grave monument or service.
I just wished our lives actually mattered for once. These yt supremacists can literally plan out murders on these websites and the police some how “didn’t know” and how people are denying it’s a hate crime because he’s allegedly mentally ill even though it was a premeditated attack and he has a manifesto clearly stating his unhinged fascist beliefs - in the attack there’s even a clip where he was about to shoot a yt guy and apologized to him?
That whole situation just made me angry especially since I have family that live in New York
Body armor wouldn’t have helped this trash that much if someone in the store had shot him. When you get hit by an object going 1200fps, even with armor, you’re getting knocked on your ass.
These radical mad people... are insane and down right evil. How unhinged do you have to be, to be sooo bothered by someone's skin color or ethnic background that you result to becoming a whole terrorist. Folks this is what a Terrorist looks like and anybody with the same views, should be viewed as a terrorist! And needs police interventions immediately. . Praying for the family of All the victims 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
There are a lot of angry people in the world. And there are a lot of sick people too. Put those together with the current "movements" calling for change equals mass shootings...
I do not condone violence, nor gun laws...
I sorry to those who were shot it's unfair and unkind. They didn't deserve that. Not one single person.
Yes and besides all sympathy with the victims that´s becoming more and more normal to me. Like it´s part of modern society when everybody´s getting their information in social media that´s a possible outcome. That young dude spend his life probably on some social media websites and played video games, he found the instruction to "improve" his rifle probably online and worked his plan out. It´s part of life no human is entirely good he may had some self-confident issues and looked for acknowledged so he played out his fantasies. There are no obstacles for him to do, so he did because no one bothered to stop him. No I don´t think he was a criminal before he did what he did, he was just a looner that lived online.
That's for sure, there's no excuse for it. I'd just think saying that's just one American terrorist is not enough as explanation. It rather becomes a world wide phenomenon and a problem for the future not just in the US
Out of curiosity, why are people referring to him as republican? In his manifesto he self-describes himself as an ex-communist, currently an authoritarian leftist?
I haven't read his entire manifesto so maybe there's something I haven't seen but just because he criticizes the modern left doesn't mean he is right wing.
I read part of it, I have other responsibilities. As an adult, you allocate time as you see fit. Additionally, it's not critical thinking, or lack of, to not fully read a manifesto.
I'm not inclined to believe anything I've said is misinformation. You've already been corrected once on another thread by others after asserting I'm spreading "misinformation." So, specifically, what misinformation are you referring to?
Just a sick person who is sick in the head and did horrific deeds in the name of some perceived racist rant. This Should Never Happened. This is not the way to act murder is never answer to anything. But this is possible to happen caused by whites, blacks, browns, red, yellow We all have the perchance to cause this it is not just caused by one color or another just a sick human mind fixed on something they perceived in their SICK MIND as needing to be fixed by only their hand
"The gun man is not from Buffalo, he had traveled for three and a half hours to the supermarket from his hometown of Conklin."
He did so by his own words in his manifesto - because its a gunfree zone and thus it was easier to kill people.
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Also in his manifesto he describes his views beyond nationalism as the following: - Anti Capitalist - Anti Conservatism - Favourable of Communism and Socialism - Favourable of Environmentalism
I did not, rest in peace. And he streamed it. It's one of those things where you see what's happening but question if it's real. It could be somewhere you always go to, somewhere you thought was safe. It can happen anywhere.
Yes, but I'm at a loss why other races aren't promoted as much in the news cycle. We all know the kind of crap that goes down in places like LA & Chicago.. I'd say reporting skewed for "reasons".
He purposefully picked a place that was a gun free zone. The only way to stop these psychopaths is to make them them afraid that they’ll get put down so fast no one will remember them.
@annabananna, Of course they fear getting shot. That’s why they often wear body armor. And they wouldn’t choose the targets they choose, the guns they do or the locations if they weren’t copycatting previous shooters. These terrorists all have the same M. O. yet somehow every time one of these happens the media glorifies them for days if not weeks. And we wonder why it keeps happening.
If they started getting shot before they could inflict their crimes on others and the media blocked their names and pictures from being broadcast the majority of these high profile shootings these would stop in a hurry.
This guy is the only one I’ve heard of that has worn armor. I’m sure there are some that fear getting shot but so many kill themselves after killing off as many as they can. I believe they do like the media coverage they get.
I don’t even think it’s a gun control issue tbh. He most likely would get his hands on a firearm anyway if he’s determined enough. The issue is that he wanted to shoot all those people. That’s what really should be getting fixed in America.
People are going to get their hands on them anyway if they are determined enough. The issue is why do they want to kill others. People have made homemade bombs, used knives, lynched, used hammers, axes, rocks…. The issue isn’t guns it’s the fact people want to kill others
@Zeldaismyqueen we used to lock the mentally I’ll up permanently. Now we let them roam the streets.
We used to control our borders. Now we just leave them open to millions of people per year.
We used to have a people and a country. Now we have no culture, no traditions and no order. We have become the third world.
But guns aren’t the issue. Governments kill millions every year. Preventing people from having guns is not going to fix this - and would likely exacerbate the problem
Actually it was 11. Including the black security guard. They should have killed that shooter. Waste of tax payer dollars to give him a jail cell and free food.
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