Open Thread | The Domestic Terrorist and His Hate Crime in Buffalo

He WAS NOT a ‘lone wolf’.
He WAS NOT ‘ mentally ill.’

He IS a DOMESTIC TERRORIST WHO COMMITTED FIRST DEGREE MURDER against innocent souls whose only crime was Grocery Shopping While Black.

And, for that, they were sentenced to DEATH.

Thank you, Mr. President. Call it what it is.

Stated unequivocally and forcefully that what happened in Buffalo was a hate crime and white nationalist domestic terrorism

Thank you President Biden https://t.co/Y2jjtthIre

— Qondi (@QondiNtini) May 15, 2022

President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden lay flowers at the Tops Market Memorial after 10 people were killed at the grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday pic.twitter.com/8byfnpdvYa

— Arlette Saenz (@ArletteSaenz) May 17, 2022

He is 18. Where did he get the money for his weapon of death and the bulletproof vest he wore?

He is NOT LOST.
He is NOT CONFUSED.
He went several hundred miles, away from his home, to a Black neighborhood to MURDER THOSE PEOPLE IN COLD BLOOD.

The gunman who killed at least 10 people in Buffalo is a self-described white supremacist who advocates for the Great Replacement Theory.
He left a manifesto. See if you can tell the difference between it and standard fare on the Tucker Carlson show. https://t.co/ScoxO1NG5E pic.twitter.com/T5mZw9iV9C

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) May 14, 2022

And, there’s nothing in his ‘Manifesto’ that a Fox viewer hasn’t seen on Tucker Carlson’s show.

Buffalo shooting suspect Payton Gendron had the N-word painted on the barrel of gun used to kill 10 people, report sayshttps://t.co/IgBGsvVO0L

— Insider News (@InsiderNews) May 15, 2022

Payton Gendron is what happens when radicalized young white boys see a racist murderer like Kyle Rittenhouse gain hero status by murdering n****r lovers, get celebrated on Fox News and then get to hang out with donald trump and “hot babes” at Mar-a-Lago. #Buffalo

— Kenny BooYah! (@KwikWarren) May 15, 2022

The Buffalo shooter said in his manifesto that, in addition to targeting the area for its Black population, he researched the days and times when the Tops grocery store was busiest.

The neighborhood is a food desert, and shaped by decades of segregationhttps://t.co/fW0XpYSrAL

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 15, 2022

If you are not talking about the "media" organizations, right-wing talking heads, & Republican politicians spewing hate in the form of white replacement theory, you're part of the problem. Y'all would burn this country 2 the ground if Black ppl were mass murdering whitefolk.

— Skeptical Brotha (@skepticalbrotha) May 15, 2022

"A tight-knit community, a tight-knit city, certainly a tight-knit region here in Western New York in a state of mourning right now."@SPECNews1BUF's @AndyYoungTV joined NY1 this morning to provide an update from the scene of Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo. pic.twitter.com/XK0NNP8uiH

— Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) May 15, 2022

If you are thinking about using the phrase “racially-charged” in a headline or news report today — stop. Hit delete. Start over and make it plain. The shooter in Buffalo called himself a racist in his manifesto so you can too.

— Michele Norris (@michele_norris) May 15, 2022

“This was pure evil. A straight-up racially motivated hate crime,” Erie County Sheriff John Garcia said of the mass shooting that killed 10 people at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo. https://t.co/Ztl2wntuzS pic.twitter.com/8sXLL3YTJz

— News 4 Buffalo (@news4buffalo) May 15, 2022

What are the consequences for Tucker Carlson and lawmaker @RepStefanik in pushing white replacement theory? People are dead. Families are devastated, hearts ripped out. It was a racist attack on Black people. These people pushed it and #PaytonGendron acted upon it.

— 3ChicsPolitico (@3ChicsPolitico) May 15, 2022

NEW: President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Buffalo, New York on Tuesday to grieve with the community that lost ten lives in a senseless and horrific mass shooting, per White House

— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) May 15, 2022

The victims. May their souls Rest In Peace. Prayers to their families.

Police release names of the victims at Tops Market in Buffalo, New York pic.twitter.com/FRD6UkuPSk

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 16, 2022

This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo.

This is Ruth Whitfield, 86. Her son, the former Buffalo Fire Commissioner, said she was on her way from visiting her husband in a nursing home and stopped at the store to get something to eat. pic.twitter.com/LDTD81QNpd

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

Aaron Salter Jr. was identified by his son, Aaron Salter III, as the beloved Tops Friendly Markets security guard and former Buffalo cop who tried to stop the shooter.

Salter, who joined the Buffalo Police Department right out of high school, leaves behind three children. pic.twitter.com/QeKKgy1yGB

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

Pearl Young, 77, was a mother, grandmother, and key member of her church. For 25 years she fed those in need in the city’s Central Park neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/AQa71nr2bp

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

Roberta Drury, 32, from Syracuse. She was in Buffalo spending time with family and to help her brother recover from a bone marrow transplant.

She leaves behind 3 siblings and her parents. pic.twitter.com/d39DTBBeCT

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

Celestine Chaney, 65, was a breast cancer survivor with 7 grandkids. pic.twitter.com/DaGBmhKi5q

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

Heyward Patterson, a deacon at his church, would frequently give people rides to and from the Tops supermarket and help them carry their groceries. pic.twitter.com/FKLqrnkeSA

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

Andre Mackniel, a beloved father, brother, uncle and friend. According to his brother, he was at Tops supermarket to buy a birthday cake for his son who just turned 3. pic.twitter.com/vf5YJeoPdt

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

Katherine 'Kat' Massey, 72, was an advocate for civil rights & education in her community. Massey had gone to Tops to do some grocery shopping.

Kat wrote for both the Buffalo Challenger & Buffalo Criterion.
A year ago, she wrote in support of more federal regulation of firearms. pic.twitter.com/tunhoEKxvG

— Natasha ⚯͛ (@ndelriego) May 15, 2022

For like… 10 years… Black people fought to get that Tops grocery store on Jefferson, so the community could have access to fresh food in an urban food desert, in a city that is getting gentrified to hell… only for it to be terrorized like this

— Dr. Raven the Science Maven (@ravenscimaven) May 15, 2022

Here is how you can help https://t.co/ZeXUDwLxuV

— Dr. Raven the Science Maven (@ravenscimaven) May 15, 2022

I hope the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York is considering Federal hate crimes charges and the death penalty for the Buffalo shooter.

— Bernie is the reason why Roe is dead. (@Needle_of_Arya) May 15, 2022

“We are hurting, and we are seething right now as a community,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said following the shooting that killed 10 and injured three at a Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo pic.twitter.com/wYw3ME8L5Z

— The Buffalo News (@TheBuffaloNews) May 15, 2022

Absolutely horrifying.

8yo hiding in a milk cooler.

This morning we are tracking all of the latest developments after an 18-year-old man drove hours to a Tops in Buffalo shooting 13 people, killing 10.

11 were black and 2 were white. Police investigating as a hate crime. https://t.co/qy4EfnFgfw

— Raven Tiara Brown (@WHEC_RBrown) May 15, 2022

Authorities say when the Buffalo store shooting suspect arrived at the store around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, he was heavily armed, wearing tactical gear, a helmet and had a camera that was livestreaming his actions. https://t.co/RsNhxzcwgg

— CNN (@CNN) May 15, 2022

If once a year, a Black kid wrote a manifesto, that sounded like popular left-wing ideology, and used those "theories" to justify his mass murder in white neighborhoods, absolutely all hell would break loose. The reverse is happening to collective white shrugs.

— Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor) May 15, 2022

NEW: A mass shooter in Buffalo, NY who killed at least 10 people had posted a manifesto online espousing the White Replacement Theory, per @BNONews.

White Replacement Theory has been long promoted and championed by Tucker Carlson on Fox News.pic.twitter.com/LaO82WpzfH

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) May 14, 2022

It’s never fucking been about mental health.

Stop pretending you give a shit about it only when it’s to absolve a white terrorist.

— Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice (@Imani_Barbarin) May 15, 2022

95% of American mass shooters: "I am a nazi and I do this because I want to ethnically cleanse the world. Here is my manifesto where I detail all of my nazi beliefs."

The media: The mentally ill lone wolf had a rough life. No one wanted to be his friend.

— Housing 4 All is Hot (@ahouse4all) May 14, 2022

JUST IN “We’re not just hurting. We’re angry. We’re mad…”
-Ruth Whitfield’s Son Garnell Whitfield Jr.
She was a mom, wife & grandmother, coming back from visiting her husband at a nursing home when she was killed in the racial-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo @thenewsoncnbc pic.twitter.com/jU2evIxofe

— Shomari Stone (@shomaristone) May 16, 2022

Thread

Republicans find a new young White supremacist sociopath to glorify and emulate every year. This is how they recruit more Republicans and more White supremacist sociopaths, who so often graduate to become White domestic terrorists. The MSM colludes with them to normalize it all. https://t.co/0ayPcYlHLP

— Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) November 12, 2021