10 killed, 3 wounded in racially motivated shooting at Buffalo supermarket, officials say; suspect in custody

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A man wearing military-style gear entered a Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue shortly after 2:30 p.m. and began firing, law enforcement said.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/buffalo-supermarket-mass-shooting-leaves-7-dead-law-enforcement-source-rcna28883

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• At least 10 people were killed and three injured during a mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery story Saturday afternoon, according to the city's police commissioner.
• The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime, the FBI said.
• The suspect is in custody and will be arraigned on charge of murder in first degree Saturday evening, a district attorney said.

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Buffalo supermarket shooting live-streamed on Twitch, platform says

From CNN’s Brian Stelter

Twitch, the popular live-streaming platform best known for gaming, confirmed on Saturday that the Buffalo supermarket shooting suspect used its platform to stream a live broadcast during the attack. 

"We are devastated to hear about the shooting that took place this afternoon in Buffalo, New York," the company said. "Our hearts go out to the community impacted by this tragedy. Twitch has a zero-tolerance policy against violence of any kind and works swiftly to respond to all incidents."

Twitch said that the user "has been indefinitely suspended from our service, and we are taking all appropriate action, including monitoring for any accounts rebroadcasting this content."

Officials during a news conference earlier Saturday did not say where the livestream was, only that it was on a "social media platform," according to Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/us/live-news/buffalo-supermarket-mass-shooting/index.html

 

Erie County Sheriff John Garcia called the shooting "pure evil" during the news conference.

"It was straight-up, racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community, outside of the city of good neighbors as the mayor said, coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us," Garcia said.

Out of the 13 victims, 11 are Black while two are White, according to Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia.

 

Peyton Gendron of Broome County, New York, was arraigned and charged with murder in the first degree on Saturday, to which he pleaded not guilty

 

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[laylalex 7,285]

Just terrible. The details of this are disgusting. 18 years old and already filled with that much hate! 

 

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2 minutes ago, laylalex said:

Just terrible. The details of this are disgusting. 18 years old and already filled with that much hate! 

 

Queued up "Nothing to see here, lamestream media, whatabout antifa blahblahblah"

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[laylalex 7,285]

He's an adult, so he should take ALL the blame, but what kind of parents allow this to happen? How do you not know you have a self-described white supremacist in your home?

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25 minutes ago, laylalex said:

He's an adult, so he should take ALL the blame, but what kind of parents allow this to happen? How do you not know you have a self-described white supremacist in your home?

Maybe start with a culture   that feels they are the victim and that "others" are displacing you.

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1 minute ago, Fuerteventura said:

Maybe start with a culture   that feels they are the victim and that "others" are displacing you.

Until we know a bit more about the parents, I'm reserving judgment. The shooter might be very good at compartmentalizing and hiding parts of himself. My guess is they had no idea how deep down he was into 4chan and 8chan's soggy bottoms, drinking deep from the sludge of Lake Edgelord. I have a lot of sympathy for parents during the pandemic and how hard it must have been to keep their kids' online activity monitored all the time. My guess is this kid got radicalized in the past couple of years. It might have started as something that seemed funny ha-ha but he clearly became deadly serious.

 

It reminds me of that quote from Rumpole (you know I have been watching a lot of Rumpole recently): "The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere." I've had that line flipping and squirming about quite a bit this week in my wee brain, like a fish dangling on the end of a hook. 

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Agree 100% that this is beyond terrible.

[Dashinka 24,512]

No whataboutisms are necessary, this was a terrible act driven by our woke divided culture.  This guy deserves to be drawn and quartered.

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2 hours ago, Dashinka said:

this was a terrible act driven by our woke divided culture.  

Please expand.

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Democracy Dies in Darkness

 

 

 

RETROPOLIS

The roots of the ‘great replacement theory’ believed to fuel Buffalo shooter

By Martha M. Hamilton

 and 

Aaron Wiener

 

Today at 7:39 a.m. EDT

 

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The man authorities say opened fire in a Buffalo grocery store Saturday, killing 10, appears to have left behind a white supremacist manifesto centered on the idea of a plot to replace the White population with immigrants.

 

This far-right conspiracy theory, known as the “great replacement theory,” has inspired a lot of recent violence, including the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, where the shooter warned of “White genocide” before pleading guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders and engaging in a terrorist act.

10 killed in racially motivated shooting at Buffalo grocery store

Some of the torch-bearing “Unite the Right” demonstrators, including Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis, who terrorized Charlottesville in 2017 were also motivated by the theory which warns that an increase in the non-White population fueled by immigration will destroy White and Western civilization.

Democracy Dies in Darkness

 

 

 

RETROPOLIS

The roots of the ‘great replacement theory’ believed to fuel Buffalo shooter

By Martha M. Hamilton

 and 

Aaron Wiener

 

Today at 7:39 a.m. EDT

 

A 1939 photo of Sen. Theodore G. Bilbo (D) of Mississippi. (Harris & Ewing Collection/Library of Congress)

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The man authorities say opened fire in a Buffalo grocery store Saturday, killing 10, appears to have left behind a white supremacist manifesto centered on the idea of a plot to replace the White population with immigrants.

 

This far-right conspiracy theory, known as the “great replacement theory,” has inspired a lot of recent violence, including the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, where the shooter warned of “White genocide” before pleading guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders and engaging in a terrorist act.

10 killed in racially motivated shooting at Buffalo grocery store

Some of the torch-bearing “Unite the Right” demonstrators, including Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis, who terrorized Charlottesville in 2017 were also motivated by the theory which warns that an increase in the non-White population fueled by immigration will destroy White and Western civilization.

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2 hours ago, Fuerteventura said:

Please expand.

You do not think the US has become more divided the past 20+ years?  The larger the divide, the more these extremist kooks will come out of the woodwork.

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17 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

You do not think the US has become more divided the past 20+ years?  The larger the divide, the more these extremist kooks will come out of the woodwork.

Pinning  the modifier"woke" as the cause of the division is what I wanted you to explain. 

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