Racism Fueled Buffalo's Mass Shooting
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
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Summary
Federal officials are investigating Saturday’s shooting in Buffalo, New York, as both a hate crime and “racially-motivated violent extremism.” The gunman touted the white supremacist theory that immigrants and folks of color are “replacing” white Americans and voters.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 17th. I'm Gideon Reznik. |
| 0:07.6 | And I'm Treville Anderson and this is what a day where we know that at any moment you |
| 0:12.0 | could accidentally end up at a Travis Barker Courtney Kardashian wedding. |
| 0:16.2 | Yeah, Travis and Courtney popping out from behind a wall and reciting their vows could |
| 0:19.9 | happen to anyone anywhere. |
| 0:21.8 | Sure, mainly in Santa Barbara but also in the town USA. |
| 0:26.2 | You have been warned. |
| 0:31.3 | On today's show, a look at some of today's primaries in Pennsylvania and elsewhere plus |
| 0:35.6 | Abbott, the manufacturer of Simalak said it has agreed to fix safety issues at one of |
| 0:40.4 | its factories. |
| 0:41.4 | But first, an update on two of the mass shootings that took place over the weekend that we |
| 0:45.7 | mentioned on yesterday's show. |
| 0:47.9 | In Buffalo, New York, 10 people were killed and three others wounded by a white supremacist |
| 0:52.2 | on Saturday at the grocery store tops in a historically black neighborhood of the city. |
| 1:11.9 | That is the voice of Garnel Whitfield, Jr. |
| 1:14.9 | The son of one of the victims, Ruth Whitfield, the 86-year-old granny of eight. |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah, so police have confirmed that the gunmen drove over three hours to Buffalo and even |
| 1:36.4 | made a visit to the neighborhood the day before they attacked as one might in a reconnaissance |
| 1:40.6 | mission. |
| 1:41.6 | Washington Post also reports that he actually visited tops back in March. |
| 1:46.5 | They reviewed a 589-page document of messages on Discord that was posted online last |
| 1:53.2 | month by the gunman that refers to the supermarket as, quote, attack area one. |
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