Buffalo shooting

Buffalo police said earlier Saturday afternoon that the alleged shooter was also in custody.

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. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun and was tackled by the police.” “The president has been briefed by his homeland security adviser on the horrific shooting in Buffalo, New York, this afternoon. Mayor Byron Brown was at the scene late Saturday afternoon and expected to address the media. “He was standing there with the gun to his chin. Braedyn Kephart and Shane Hill, both 20, pulled into the parking lot just as the shooter was exiting.

Police said multiple people were shot in what they described as a "mass shooting" at a Buffalo supermarket. WKBW. CNN —.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul tweeted, "I am closely monitoring the shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo. We have offered assistance to local officials. The shooter is in custody. The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime Belongia said.

BUFFALO, NY (WBFO) – Thirteen people were shot, 10 of them fatally, by a gunman who entered the Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo Saturday and ...

According to the alleged manifesto, the suspect targeted Blacks, motivated by the belief that he was responding to a campaign to “replace” the White race. So I want to make sure that I have the best charge right now to hold him in custody and get this matter moving forward before I add any other charges on it. His alleged manifesto also expressed hatred toward Jews, and suggests “Arabs,” Asians and other non-white ethnicities do not belong in a “White civilization.” Social media accounts are suggesting the alleged shooter released a manifesto and “to-do” list prior to the attack. The gunman, reported to be a young white male, was in police custody according to law enforcement agencies. The alleged shooter was taken into police custody and was scheduled to be arraigned Saturday evening.

Updated May 14, 2022 at 6:04 PM ET. BUFFALO, N.Y. — A gunman wearing military-style clothing and body armor opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in ...

"The Justice Department is investigating this matter as a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism," Garland said in a statement. Many people in our community are touched by this in some way." Twitch said the stream was taken offline less than two minutes after the violence started, and has indefinitely suspended the user from the service. "Collectively, our community is heartbroken and is in pain at this point," he said. The document's author calls the New Zealand shooter his biggest source of inspiration. Posted to the anonymous message board 4chan, an author identifying himself as Payton Gendron says "extreme boredom" during the pandemic led to his radicalization on 4chan. He briefly held a gun to his neck, but police said they talked him into dropping his guns and surrendering. The suspect then shot and killed the security guard. We must do everything in our power to end hate-fueled domestic terrorism." A total of 13 people were shot at the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday afternoon, officials said at a press conference. A public information officer with the Erie County District Attorney's Office named the suspect as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron, who is white. Eleven of the victims were Black, and two were white, said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia.

The man live streamed the shooting and US media says a manifesto posted online references the 2019 Christchurch mosques terrorist attack.

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. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.” “He was standing there with the gun to his chin. Police officials and a spokesperson for the supermarket chain did not immediately respond to messages from the AP seeking comment. The suspect was being questioned by the FBI, one of the officials said. The shooting happened in a predominantly Black neighbourhood a few kilometres north of downtown Buffalo.

A gunman sporting a rifle and body armour opened fire in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing at least 10 people before being taken into custody ...

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. She was in there with her fiance, they separated and went to different aisles," she said. "He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police." "He was standing there with the gun to his chin. Police officials and a spokesperson for the supermarket chain did not immediately respond to messages from the AP seeking comment. Investigators believe the man may have been live-streaming the shooting and were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online, one official said.

A retired Buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard fired multiple shots at the gunman. The authorities said that the suspect was struck but ...

Then the police tackled him, witnesses told The Buffalo News. He then put the gun to his own neck, said the police commissioner, Joseph A. Gramaglia, at a press conference. He shot shoppers and employees, according to the police, leaving a trail of bodies in the aisles. Shonnell Harris, an operation manager at the Tops, told The Buffalo News that she was stocking shelves when she heard loud noises and saw people running toward the back of the store. A retired Buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard fired multiple shots at the gunman. He was wearing tactical gear and body armor, with a video camera fixed to his helmet.

A security guard fired a shot that hit the gunman's bulletproof vest and had no effect, police later said after the 18-year-old surrendered.

“He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.” “He was standing there with the gun to his chin. He dropped the gun, took off some of his tactical gear, and surrendered at that point. “At that point the suspect put the gun to his own neck. “This is the worst nightmare that any community can face, and we are hurting and we are seething right now,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said at the news conference. Police said 11 of the victims were black and two are white.

The alleged shooter has been arraigned on first-degree murder charges. Authorities say the attack is being investigated as a racially motivated hate crime ...

Twitch said the stream was taken offline less than 2 minutes after the violence started, and has indefinitely suspended the user from the service. Many people in our community are touched by this in some way." He briefly held a gun to his neck, but police said they talked him into dropping his guns and surrendering. The suspect then shot and killed the security guard. A total of 13 people were shot at the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday afternoon, officials said at a press conference. Eleven of the victims were Black, and two were white, said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia.

An 18-year-old gunman shot 10 people to death and wounded three others at a grocery story in Buffalo, New York, before he surrendered to police in what ...

"She was just going into the store. "Many of us have been in and out of this supermarket many times. Flynn said the judge also ordered Gendron to remain in custody without bail and to undergo a "forensic examination." US President Joe Biden has been briefed on the shooting. Three other employees of the store, part of a regional chain, were wounded but are expected to survive, authorities said. "This person was pure evil," Erie County sheriff John Garcia said, his voice quaking with emotion.

Shoppers in and around a Buffalo, New York, supermarket Saturday detailed being forced to hide behind cars, calling out for help as a gunman killed 10 ...

"This is the worst nightmare that any community can face and we are hurting and we are seething right now as a community," Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said. "He was very heavily armed," the police commissioner said. One woman told WKBW she received a distressing phone call from her "scared, hysterical" 19-year-old granddaughter who was at the supermarket and heard gunshots. "I still don't even believe it happened ... that a person would go into a supermarket full of people," he said. Then he dropped it and took off his bulletproof vest, then got on his hands and knees and put his hands behind his back," Lewis said, describing the moments the suspect was arrested by police. "This was not a White man from Buffalo. This was a White person who was evil, so I don't want to see all White people painted and to have a tension between Black and White because of the individual who should serve his time." "Hate must have no safe harbor." "The same way I don't want to see Black people painted with a broad brush if we have one Black person (do wrong), they say, 'Oh, those Black folks.' So at the end of the day, I don't want to see the same thing happen in our community with Black and White relations," Pridgen said. Speaking to the suspected motive of the shooting, Darius G. Pridgen -- the president of Buffalo's city council and the senior pastor of True Bethel Baptist Church -- told CNN's Pamela Brown he hopes it is understood that race relations in the city do not have to be frayed and that the shooting was the act of an "evil" individual from outside the community. "The depth of pain that families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now cannot even be explained." "He had tactical gear, he had a tactical helmet on, he had a camera that he was livestreaming what he was doing." Grady Lewis said he was outside the supermarket when he heard seven or eight gunshots, and described seeing a White man "fully prepared, ready to go," dressed in tactical gear spraying gunfire at the entry of the store, which is located in the heart of the city's Black community.

A massacre at a Buffalo supermarket was the deadliest in the U.S. this year.

Of the 13 people who were shot, 11 were Black and two were white. The Cannes Film Festival begins this week. “Top Gun: Maverick” will premiere 36 years after the original. By then, the police had arrived, and he briefly put a gun to his neck before he began removing tactical gear as a form of surrender and the police tackled him. But the recovery process is extremely painful, as documented in this photo essay. It’s the magazine’s health issue, all about body modifications. He was arrested at the store and pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance. He went on to stalk victims throughout the store; “bodies were everywhere,” one witness said. Four worked at the Tops grocery. The view is known as “replacement theory” and was once linked to the far-right fringe, but it has become increasingly mainstream. Around 2:30 p.m., as shoppers filled the Tops supermarket, the suspect arrived wearing body armor, tactical gear and a helmet with a video camera attached. A gunman embracing a white supremacist ideology opened fire yesterday afternoon at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three more.

Described by Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia as “a hero in our eyes,” Aaron Salter Jr. was the security guard on duty when the gunman began his ...

Saturday’s shooting had the same number of fatalities as a shooting by a transit system employee last May at a light-rail facility in San Jose, according to the archive. When police arrived at the store, Gendron put a gun to his neck but was ultimately persuaded to surrender, Gramaglia said. In February, six people were killed in Corsicana, Tex., when a man targeted members of his family. Until then, the deadliest shooting this year took place on April 3 in downtown Sacramento, where six died and a dozen were injured after multiple shooters fired on a stretch of bars and nightclubs. “She could have probably done a number of other things with her life and with her talents, but she chose to use them on us,” Garnell said. “We have to rally as a family around my father and make sure that he’s well cared for,” he said. Salter was inspired to undertake that project during a 2011 spike in gas prices, he said in an interview. After surrendering to police, Gendron was charged with first-degree murder. In a few years, he predicted, scientists and engineers would find that cars could run on water. On the way home, she stopped at Tops Friendly Markets, where she and nine others were fatally shot, authorities said. “She was his angel.” Eleven of the 13 people were Black.

Witnesses reported the gunman was wearing military-style clothing and body armor, one of the officials said.

Investigators have not released any information about why they believe the man charged in that attack targeted the supermarket. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.” “He was standing there with the gun to his chin. Investigators believe the man may have been livestreaming the shooting and were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online, the official said. Braedyn Kephart and Shane Hill, both 20, pulled into the parking lot just as the shooter was exiting. Details on the number of additional people shot at the Tops Friendly Market and their conditions weren't immediately available.

A gunman embracing a white supremacist ideology opened fire yesterday afternoon at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three more. The mass shooting was the deadliest in the United States this ...

Of the 13 people who were shot, 11 were Black and two were white. The Cannes Film Festival begins this week. “Top Gun: Maverick” will premiere 36 years after the original. By then, the police had arrived, and he briefly put a gun to his neck before he began removing tactical gear as a form of surrender and the police tackled him. But the recovery process is extremely painful, as documented in this photo essay. It’s the magazine’s health issue, all about body modifications. He was arrested at the store and pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance. He went on to stalk victims throughout the store; “bodies were everywhere,” one witness said. Four worked at the Tops grocery. The view is known as “replacement theory” and was once linked to the far-right fringe, but it has become increasingly mainstream. Around 2:30 p.m., as shoppers filled the Tops supermarket, the suspect arrived wearing body armor, tactical gear and a helmet with a video camera attached. A gunman embracing a white supremacist ideology opened fire yesterday afternoon at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood of Buffalo, killing 10 people and wounding three more.

Eleven of the 13 victims were Black, and two were white, after an 18-year-old white male opened fire at a supermarket in New York.

She went to Tops to buy groceries, the newspaper reported. Salter shot at the shooter in an effort to stop him, but was fatally wounded, according to WHIO TV. He then entered the supermarket, where a security guard, who had recently retired from the Buffalo police department, tried to stop him.

A teenage gunman, wearing tactical gear and a livestreaming camera, killed 10 people and wounded 3 more in a hate-fueled shooting rampage in Buffalo.

The shooter "worked his way through the store" firing at others, and in the store's lobby was confronted by Buffalo police, police said. A retired Buffalo police officer identified by authorities as Aaron Salter working in the store as a security guard confronted the shooter and shot him. The same group, Wray told a Senate committee last year, were responsible for the most lethal attacks in the past decade. "When I came out here I just (saw) bodies laying in front of the store." "This individual – this white supremacist – who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. "This is in a league of it’s own...a whole new dimension," she said. Her cousin hid in a freezer and was not injured, she said. "A lot of people got away, thank God." The FBI is investigating the shooting as a hate crime and racially-motivated violent extremism. After Gendron entered the store, "he began engaging customers inside," Gramaglia said. Voice Buffalo and other equity advocacy groups organized a vigil near the shooting scene that drew a crowd of hundreds Sunday morning. Eleven of the 13 people who were shot were Black, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.

Hate-based crime has been getting worse in recent years, largely cultivated in the cauldron of darkest reaches of the internet.

I think it’s going to be different after this, in terms of the energy and the activity that we see”. We are not a nation of hate. “We are not a nation of haters. I would like to see ending hate speech on the internet, on social media. “I would like to see sensible gun control. The story is, by now, nauseatingly familiar.

The Buffalo mass shooting was inspired by the horrors of the Christchurch massacre. But America won't respond with sweeping gun law reforms the way NZ did.

But in America, it may yet again draw attention from the debate about the weapons used so often in the real world to take the lives of others - the guns. Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. Obama could sing Amazing Grace with the mourners, but he left office openly regretful he failed to pass federal gun control legislation. “We still need to learn more about the motivation for today’s shooting as law enforcement does its work, but we don’t need anything else to state a clear moral truth: A racially motivated hate crime is abhorrent to the very fabric of this nation. We must do everything in our power to end hate-fueled domestic terrorism.” Just like Christchurch gunman Brenton Harrison Tarrant, the Buffalo suspect, Payton Gendron, live-streamed his actions in a quest for notoriety.

Suspected gunman shot 11 Black and two white victims at a supermarket he broadcast on streaming platform Twitch before surrendering.

Hochul said that the shooter’s gun, an AR-15, was purchased legally in the state. She was a blessing to all of us,” former Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield told the Buffalo News. “The justice department is investigating this matter as a hate crime and an act of racially-motivated violent extremism. Community members gathered outside the Tops on Sunday morning for a prayer vigil. A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that investigators were looking into whether he had posted a manifesto online. A bullet hit the gunman’s bulletproof armor but had no effect, Gramaglia said.

A suspect apparently motivated by a white supremacist agenda shot dead 10 shoppers. Analysis shows that mass shootings – and those at grocery stores – are ...

Our research suggests many strategies to prevent mass shootings – from behavioral threat assessment to restricting access to firearms for high-risk people. But racial hatred appears to be just one of many motivations cited by retail shooters. Our analysis suggests that when it comes to retail shooters, around 13% are driven by racism – so slightly above the average for all mass shooting events. Mass shootings are socially contagious. We also built a comprehensive database of mass public shootings using public data, with the shooters coded on over 200 different variables, including location and racial profile. Mass public shootings in which four or more people are killed have become more frequent, and deadly, in the last decade.

The attack was similar to the 2019 mosque terror attacks in Christchurch - involving a lone gunman, an assault-style rifle and a manifesto that referenced the ...

We haven't seen anything like that [with the Buffalo shooting]." "What that means is the content from the attack is 'hashed'. So, signatures are taken from that material and are shared across the companies that run online platforms so that as items of content are identified they are able to be picked up when they're uploaded or when they're being shared and automatically taken down by the platforms." "If we look at things like the manifesto, undoubtedly there are people trying to post some of that but they are seemingly being taken down almost as quickly as they are put up on the major platforms."

The man accused of killing 10 at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday had made threats against his high school, the police said; a gun dealer who said he sold ...

He shot shoppers and employees, according to the police, leaving a trail of bodies in the aisles. He wrote out a lengthy manifesto that was steeped in the “great replacement” doctrine, which argues that whites are at risk of being replaced by people of color. It unfolded in a largely Black neighborhood in Buffalo, and 11 of the people shot were Black, officials said. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said on Sunday that the shooting suspect had been brought in for a mental health evaluation last June after making what Mr. Gramaglia said was a generalized threat to a classmate. “He was on the police force for 30 years and nothing like this ever happened,” his son said. Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia declined to share the details of when the suspect purchased the assault rifle used in the shooting, but he said that law enforcement had come up with a timeline. The police said that the suspect, who was identified as Payton Gendron, was apprehended with three weapons: a rifle, a shotgun and the AR-15-style weapon he used to carry out the attack. Described as a “hero” by the Buffalo Police Department’s commissioner, Mr. Salter confronted the gunman and exchanged fire with him when he entered the supermarket Saturday afternoon. “She always was the center of attention and made the whole room smile and laugh.” “Until we are honest about that, and honest about the cultural addiction to hate and the myth of racial superiority, we’ll constantly find ourselves revisiting these crises and asking the same questions,” he said. The gunman targeted the Tops because of its location in a largely Black neighborhood, according to his writings and city officials. The threat was “generalized” and not racial in nature, he said.

Shocked residents of Buffalo, New York gathered on Sunday at vigils and church services to mourn 10 people killed in a racially motivated shooting by a ...

He had researched the local demographics while looking for places with a high concentration of Black residents, law enforcement officials said on Sunday. I’m trying to bear witness but it’s just too much. He fired several shots at the assailant before being shot himself, police said. “It’s just too much. Hochul, herself a Buffalo native, described the crime as a “military-style execution” – she said the shooter carried an AR-15 assault weapon – and said racist messaging was “spreading like wildfire”. Shocked residents of Buffalo, New York gathered on Sunday at vigils and church services to mourn 10 people killed in a racially motivated shooting by a white gunman, as United States President Joe Biden said hate remains “a stain on the soul of America”.

Authorities say a white, 18-year-old gunman in military gear who was livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo ...

They have said that, including the wounded, 11 victims were Black and two were white. Officials said he was a hero who saved lives by running toward danger. A law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Sunday that Gedron had threatened to carry out a shooting last year at Susquehanna Valley High School around the time of graduation. Most of the victims were Black. Officials said they are investigating the shooting as a racially motivated hate crime. The law enforcement official was not authorized to speak publicly on the investigation and did so on the condition of anonymity. According to police, the gunman began shooting in the parking lot then moved inside the store.

The gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo is thought to have been motivated by racial hatred.

He has entered a plea of not guilty and is scheduled to return to court on May 19. “This was pure evil. In the deadliest school shooting in the US last year, four students were killed and seven other people were wounded after a teenager opened fire at a high school in Oxford, Michigan. It came just a month after a shooting on a Brooklyn subway wounded 10 and just over a year after 10 were killed in a shooting at a Colorado supermarket. A white gunman in military gear shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in the US state of New York on Saturday, in what authorities called an act of “racially motivated violent extremism”. The gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo in the US is thought to have been motivated by racial hatred.

Security guard Aaron Salter was loved by his community, and lost his life trying to protect it.

“And I’m thinking about the families who won’t welcome a loved one home tonight.” He attributed her strength and commitment to family to her strong religious faith. The bullet didn't pierce, and Salter was shot and killed. She said this sort of surprise was typical for him. Aaron Salter was a beloved community member and security guard who knew the shoppers of Tops Friendly Market by name. “I was playing my numbers.

Gamal Fouda says social media companies must do more to stop people using them as a platform to spread hate after latest racism-driven attack.

We helped rally neighbours to rebuild a beloved vege garden accidentally destroyed. The lone gunman is serving a life prison sentence with no parole. We waded into flooding when our city was deluged.

The head of the Christchurch Call says the global initiative has made it harder for people to weaponise the internet.

"We have agencies here in New Zealand monitoring carefully for the content... We haven't seen anything like that [with the Buffalo shooting]." He said it was now much harder for people to weaponise the internet but noted the work in that area was "dynamic and a work in progress".

The manifesto, which is believed to be authored by Gendron, referenced the Christchurch terror attack as inspiration for the massacre. On March 15, 2019 ...

Payton Gendron had declared he would shoot up a school and was sent for mental treatment.

She was confirmed as a victim later in the day, Brown said. "My mother had just gone to see my father, as she does every day, in the nursing home and stopped at the Tops to buy just a few groceries. The official was not authorised to discuss details of the investigation publicly. Gendron, confronted by police in the store's vestibule, put a rifle to his neck but was convinced to drop it. But after we pray — after we get up off of our knees — we've got to demand change. Police said the student was taken into custody under a state mental health law and taken to a hospital for an evaluation. "He did a good job you know. New York State Police said troopers were called to the Conklin school on June 8, 2021, for a report that a 17-year-old student had made threatening statements. He was very nice and respectable." The market is located in a predominantly black neighborhood. All others, the document said, were "replacers" who should be eliminated by force or terror. The attack was intended to intimidate all non-white, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country, it said.

Friends and family were mourning the loss of 10 people who were killed Saturday in Buffalo, New York. Here's what we know about the victims.

Patterson, 67, was a deacon at a Buffalo church and had gone to a soup kitchen before going to the Tops store, where he often offered to drive people home with their bags. Young of Buffalo, 77, was grocery shopping after grabbing lunch with her sister-in-law when she was shot and killed, AL.com reported. My mother was a mother to the motherless. "Current pursued remedies mainly inspired by mass killings — namely, universal background checks and banning assault weapons — essentially exclude the sources of our city’s gun problems. Whitfield, who was from Buffalo, had four children and eight grandchildren. Her sister, Barbara Massey, stood outside the Tops story for hours dialing Kat's phone in hopes she would pick up. "You ask, he’ll give it. “My mom was the consummate mom. "There needs to be extensive federal action/legislation to address all aspects of the issue," she wrote in the letter. Their ages range from 32 to 86 years old. She was a blessing to all of us. Whitfield, 86, was shopping at the Tops store when she was shot and killed, her son, Garnell W. Whitfield, told The Buffalo News. She was stopping for groceries after visiting her husband at a nursing home.

The reported names include: Former Buffalo Police Lt. Aaron Salter; Ruth Whitfield, mother of Buffalo's retired fire commissioner, Garnell W. Whitfield ...

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Questions are being asked about how the suspect carried out the attack when he was known to authorities.

Some 40,000 deaths a year involve firearms in America, a figure that includes suicides - and mass shooting events occur frequently. The gunman in Buffalo, like ones before, live-streamed his violent rampage and left a so-called "manifesto" online. you see this on TV, you hear about it on TV... but I never thought I would be one of them," said one. A security guard fired several shots back but the gunman's bulletproof vest stopped one that hit him, police said. Of the 13 people shot, police said 11 were black. "It's like a nightmare...

Gunmen say they are influenced by online screeds and broadcasts of past shootings. Do social media sites have a responsibility to rein in hateful and ...

A company spokeswoman initially said the site might remove some instances of the video or add a sensitive content warning, then later said Twitter would remove all videos related to the attack after The Times asked for clarification. Removing violent content is “like trying to plug your fingers into leaks in a dam,” said Ms. Douek, the researcher. In the wake of the shooting in New Zealand, social platforms and countries around the world joined an initiative called the Christchurch Call to Action and agreed to work closely to combat terrorism and violent extremism content. Asked why some users were notified that posts with links to the video did not violate its standards, the spokesman did not have an answer. Social media and content moderation experts said Twitch’s quick response was the best that could reasonably be expected. Many of the gunmen in the shootings have written that they developed their racist and antisemitic beliefs trawling online forums like Reddit and 4chan, and were spurred on by watching other shooters stream their attacks live. Platforms like Facebook, Twitch and Twitter have made strides in recent years, the experts said, in removing violent content and videos faster. By Sunday, links to recordings of the video had circulated widely on other social platforms. Questions about the responsibilities of social media sites are part of a broader debate over how aggressively platforms should moderate their content. In a manifesto posted online, Payton S. Gendron, the 18-year-old whom the authorities identified as the shooter, wrote that he had been inspired by the Christchurch gunman and others. But two minutes was enough time for the video to be shared elsewhere. In March 2019, before a gunman murdered 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, he went live on Facebook to broadcast his attack.

A white, 18-year-old gunman allegedly carried out a racist attack at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Saturday, killing 10 people and injuring three ...

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Paul Spoonley is a distinguished professor emeritus at Massey University whose research interests have included extensive study of the far-Right, ...

If you value hearing the opinions of others, please consider becoming a Stuff supporter. Like the Christchurch shooter, we have an extensive document that details the racist, anti-Semitic and white supremacy views of the Buffalo shooter. Good idea, but what constitutes social cohesion in contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand? And how do we increase trust and inclusiveness? Our Perspectives section is home to myriad voices, representing Aotearoa's many different communities. The Christchurch terrorist used Facebook and 8chan. The Buffalo terrorist used Twitch.