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May 15 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Buffalo's mayor said Sunday that the shooter who killed 10 people at a grocery store had come to the city "with the express purpose of taking as many Black lives as he possibly could"

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#UPDATE President Biden and the first lady will travel to Buffalo on Tuesday "to grieve with the community that lost ten lives in a senseless and horrific mass shooting," the White House announced Sunday Image
#BREAKING UN chief 'appalled' by 'vile,' 'racist' Buffalo shooting: spokesman Image
#UPDATE UN chief Guterres condemns the killing of 10 people at a grocery store in a predominately Black neighborhood in New York State, his spokesman says.

"The Secretary-General was appalled by the killing of 10 people in a vile act of racist violent extremism in Buffalo" People light candles at a m...

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