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This is The Takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris-Perry. Thanks for being with us today.

Yesterday at 2.28 p.m., the city of Buffalo paused, as bells from the city's churches told to mark one year

since an 18-year-old white man, armed with an assault rifle, drove three hours from his home in

Conklin, New York, to a Topps grocery store in Buffalo's east side. The only purpose of his trip was to shoot and kill black people.

In a matter of minutes, this racist gunman brutally murdered Roberta Drury, Margus Morrison,

Andre McNeil, Aaron Salter, Geraldine Talley, Celestine Cheney,

Hayward Patterson, Catherine Massey, Ruth Whitfield, and Pearl Young.

The shooter also injured three more people in the store that day.

The feeling of pain and hurt and sorrow since 514 is always just below the surface.

This is Byron Brown. He's mayor of Buffalo, New York.

It's a role he served in since 2006.

I spent some time with Mayor Brown this weekend when I visited Buffalo

as part of the city's commemoration of the Black Lives

Stolen last year by racist violence at the Topps grocery store.

And when I think about it, when I talk about it, the tears can flow.

And as mayor, you want to be tough and strong and hold it together.

So I don't let the tears flow in public, but in the shower in the morning and at night.

That's when I let the tears swell.

Many in Buffalo feel that their losses were quickly forgotten in the brutal torrent of gun violence,

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