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[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Another mass shooting in America, so where's this "good guy with a gun" that conservatives love to screech about whenever we bring up gun control?

A gunman wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket in what authorities described as “racially motived violent extremism,” killing 10 people and wounding three others Saturday before he surrendered, authorities said.

Police officials said the gunman, who also wore body armor in addition to military-style clothing, pulled up in the afternoon and opened fire amid shoppers at a Tops Friendly Market, the shooting streamed via a camera affixed to the man’s helmet.

“He exited his vehicle. He was very heavily armed. He had tactical gear. He had a tactical helmet on. He had a camera that he was livestreaming what he was doing,” city Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said at a news conference afterward.

Gramaglia said the gunman initially shot four people outside the store, three fatally. Inside the store, a security guard who was a retired Buffalo police officer fired multiple shots at the gunman and struck him, but the bullet hit the gunman’s bulletproof vest and had no effect, Gramaglia added. The Commissioner said the gunman then killed the security guard.

Video also captured the suspect as he walked into the supermarket where he shot several other victims inside, according to authorities.

Police said 11 of the victims were Black and two are white. The supermarket is in a predominantly Black neighborhood a few miles (kilometers) north of downtown Buffalo.

“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. “The depth of pain that families are feeling and that all of us are feeling right now cannot even be explained.”

Gramaglia said Buffalo police entered the store and confronted the gunman in the vestibule.

“At that point the suspect put the gun to his own neck. Buffalo police personnel -- two patrol officers -- talked the suspect into dropping the gun. He dropped the gun, took off some of his tactical gear, surrendered at that point. And he was led outside, put in a police car,” he said.

The suspected gunman was later identified as Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin, a New York state community about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Buffalo, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. The officials were not permitted to speak publicly on the matter and did so on the condition of anonymity.

The suspect was being questioned Saturday evening by the FBI, one of the officials said, and Conklin was expected to appear in court later Saturday.

At the news briefing, Erie County Sheriff John Garcia pointedly called the shooting a hate crime.

“This was pure evil. It was straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community, outside of the City of Good neighbors ... coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us,” Garcia said.

Elsewhere, NAACP President Derrick Johnson issued a statement in which he called the shooting “absolutely devastating.”

“Our hearts are with the community and all who have been impacted by this terrible tragedy. Hate and racism have no place in America. We are shattered, extremely angered and praying for the victims’ families and loved ones,” he added.

Separately, the Rev. Al Sharpton called on the White House to convene a meeting with Black, Jewish and Asian “to underscore the Federal government (is) escalating its efforts against hate crimes.” In a tweet, Sharpton said that “leaders of all these communities should stand together on this!”

The shooting came little more than a year after a March 2021 attack at a King Soopers grocery in Boulder, Colorado, that killed 10 people. Investigators have not released any information about why they believe the man charged in that attack targeted the supermarket.

At the scene in Buffalo on Saturday afternoon, police closed off an entire block, lined by spectators, and yellow police taped surrounded the full parking lot.

Braedyn Kephart and Shane Hill, both 20, pulled into the parking lot just as the shooter was exiting. They described him as a white male in his late teens or early twenties sporting full camo, a black helmet and what appeared to be a rifle.

“He was standing there with the gun to his chin. We were like what the heck is going on? Why does this kid have a gun to his face?” Kephart said. He dropped to his knees. “He ripped off his helmet, dropped his gun, and was tackled by the police.”

Tops Friendly Markets released a statement saying, “We are shocked and deeply saddened by this senseless act of violence and our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.”

At the White House, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Joe Biden was receiving regular updates on the shooting and the investigation and had offered prayers with the first lady for the victims and their loved ones.

“The president has been briefed by his Homeland Security advisor on the horrific shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., this afternoon. He will continue to receive updates throughout the evening and tomorrow as further information develops,” she said.

Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefed on the shooting, Justice Department spokesperson Anthony Coley said.

More than two hours after the shooting, Erica Pugh-Mathews was waiting outside the store, behind police tape.

“We would like to know the status of my aunt, my mother’s sister. She was in there with her fiance, they separated and went to different aisles,” she said. “A bullet barely missed him. 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. We just would like word either way if she’s OK.”

Payton Gendron is the suspect accused of killing at least 10 people at a Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, May 14, 2022. Gendron was taken into custody at the scene, Buffalo Police said. Three others were wounded. Gendron is facing first-degree murder charges in New York state court and could also face federal charges, including hate crimes, officials said. The names of the victims have not been released yet.

A racist and anti-Semitic manifesto and a Twitch livestream were attributed online to the gunman, but authorities have not verified those accounts. A graphic video emerged that shows bodies lying in the parking lot as law enforcement officers take the suspect into custody. Gendron is from Conklin, New York. He said in the manifesto he is an 18-year-old college student and a self-described white supremacist. Gendron was shot by a security guard, but was not injured because he was wearing body armor, Buffalo Police said at a press conference

Conklin is more than 200 miles southeast of Buffalo in the Southern Tier region of New York. Gendron included his name in the manifesto and The Associated Press confirmed his identity with law enforcement sources. Gendron appeared in court Saturday night for his arraignment, officials said. He is being held without bail. He is scheduled to return to court in five days, according to authorities. A mugshot has not been released, but photos from the local media show Gendron in court:

The manifesto, which talks about the extremist far-right white or great replacement theory and includes alt-right 4chan memes and jokes, is similar to ones written by shooters who attacked a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Tree of Life synagogue in Pennsylvania and an El Paso, Texas, Walmart in recent years, Yale professor Jason Stanley says.

[...]

The manifesto fixates on mass immigration.

“Mass immigration and the higher fertility rates of the immigrants themselves are causing this increase in population. We are experiencing an invasion on a level never seen before in history,” it says. “Millions of people pouring across our borders, legally. Invited by the state and corporate entities to replace the White people who have failed to reproduce, failed to create the cheap labor, failed to create new consumers and tax base that the corporations and states need to have to thrive.”

It continues, “This crisis of mass immigration and sub-replacement fertility is an assault on the European people that, if not combated, will ultimately result in the complete racial and cultural replacement of the European people.”

The manifesto, which refers to “white genocide,” contains a name and says that the author is “18 years old as of writing this. I am the sole perpetrator of the recent attempted mass shooting. I lived in Southern Tier, New York all my life with both my parents and 2 brothers. I believe I am ethnically white since my parent’s nationalities are from north-western Europe and Italy. I graduated highschool with a regents diploma with advanced designation and am currently enrolled in SUNY Broome with a major in Engineering Science.”

It continues, “I would love to continue this but there are bigger problems I’m more concerned with. I am not a warfighter, nor have I been enrolled in any military or tactical training, so excuse any mistakes I make during my attack. I was never diagnosed with a mental disability or disorder, and I believe to be perfectly sane.”

He claimed to be an “INTJ” personality type and included photos of a fake active shooter that often circulate online after mass shootings. The manifesto contains many pages of anti-Jewish memes and graphics.

The manifesto states:

"Why did you decide to carry out the attack?

To show to the replacers that as long as the White man lives, our land will never be theirs and they will never be safe from us.

To directly reduce immigration rates to European lands by intimidating and physically removing the replacers themselves.

To intimidate the replacers already living on our lands to emigrate back to their home countries.

To agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.

To incite violence, retaliation and further divide between the European people and the replacers currently occupying European soil…

To add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society in order to eventually destroy the current nihilistic, hedonistic, individualistic insanity that has taken control of Western thought."

The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime and case of racially motivated violent extremism, FBI Special Agent in charge of the Buffalo field office Stephen Belongia said. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York is also assisting in the investigation along with state and local authorities.

Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said at the press conference, “This individual will be arranged on a charge of murder in the first degree.” He called the shooting “despicable.” Flynn added, “That charge of murder in the first degree carries with it a life without parole sentence.” He said additional charges could also be filed at a later date.

#us politics #news #buffalo shooting #mass shootings #mass shooter #gun control #gun violence #2022 #biden administration #president joe biden #@mmpadellan #Judd Legum #white supremacists #white supremacy #fuck white supremacy #xenophobia #great replacement #ap news #Payton Gendron #heavy.com #Jeff Sharlet #hasan piker #hasanabi #hasanthehun #tweet #twitter #these white people are dangerous #these white men are dangerous

[beardedmrbean]

“Antifa” and BLM never rioted.

94% of BLM protests were peaceful, and the 6% that were violent were almost always caused by right wingers, republicans, conservatives, white supremacists, and counter protestors.

That’s right, YOU GUYS were responsible for that violence, because YOUR SIDE went to those protests with the express purpose of causing violence.

BLM and antifascists were and are peaceful.

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity-suburbs-health-racial-injustice-7edf9027af1878283f3818d96c54f748

In fact it's often right-wing provocateurs tried to incite violence:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-floyd-protests-antifa-twitter-white-supremacists-far-right-racist-a9544276.html

Nazi's Caught Dressing As BLM Protestors To Instigate Riots https://bipartisanreport.com/2020/07/27/nazis-caught-dressing-as-blm-protestors-to-instigate-riots/

White supremacists pose as Antifa online and instigate violence https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/george-floyd-protests-antifa-twitter-white-supremacists-far-right-racist-a9544276.html

Right-wingers continue to be arrested for violence against Biden supporters and at BLM protests https://kevinjshay44.medium.com/right-wing-provocateurs-likely-inflaming-protest-violence-bcf1c48e1d40

Gov Walz: Organized Groups Now Using Protests to ‘Break the Back of Civil Society’ https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/gov-walz-organized-groups-now-using-protests-to-break-the-back-of-civil-society/

Police: Richmond riots instigated by white supremacists disguised as Black Lives Matterhttps: //www.wsls.com/news/virginia/2020/07/27/police-richmond-riots-instigated-by-white-supremacists-disguised-as-black-lives-matter/

Mystery 'Umbrella Man' Vandal From Minnesota: Police Say He’s A White Supremacist Instigator https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/07/28/mystery-umbrella-man-vandal-from-minnesota-police-say-hes-a-white-supremacist-instigator/#1b39787f48ee

Trump’s words show that yes, he has encouraged violence https://www.ajc.com/news/national-govt--politics/trump-words-show-that-yes-has-encouraged-violence/7sIekwrBayVArwRRmZf6HI/

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-cases-invoking-trump/story?id=58912889

Were white supremacists following Trump's advice about dealing with protesters? https://www.newsweek.com/trump-told-white-supremacists-attack-protesters-so-they-did-650622

White supremacists staring the fire that burned a Minneapolis police building. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/texas-boogaloo-boi-minneapolis-police-building-george-floyd

It seems in most cases, the violence at the BLM protests were orchestrated way more often than not by white supremacists and Boogaloo boys trying to make the BLM movement look bad.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj4ky5/white-supremacist-street-gangs-are-going-to-blm-protests

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/22/who-caused-violence-protests-its-not-antifa/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-riots-identified-white/story?id=72051536

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53579099

https://www.inquirer.com/news/white-supremacist-extremists-reopen-rallies-black-lives-matter-protests-20200613.html

https://www.wsls.com/news/virginia/2020/07/27/police-richmond-riots-instigated-by-white-supremacists-disguised-as-black-lives-matter/

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/how-a-tattoo-helped-lancaster-police-identify-white-agitators-at-the-protests-for-george-floyd/article_548a0408-a506-11ea-98b2-43d9993767e7.html

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/la-attorney-resists-the-call-to-reopen-courts-amid-covid-19/white-supremacy-protests

https://www.timesonline.com/story/news/local/2020/06/02/george-floyd-protests-in-pa-being-hijacked-by-white-supremacists-state-official-says/112781346/

https://www.justsecurity.org/70497/far-right-infiltrators-and-agitators-in-george-floyd-protests-indicators-of-white-supremacists/

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/twitter-takes-down-washington-protest-disinformation-bot-behavior-n1221456

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/06/02/riots-white-supremacy-and-accelerationism/

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/authorities-suspect-white-supremacists-and-far-left-extremists-are-behind-violence-at-protests/

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article243553662.html

And here is a report on how federal, state, and local authorities worked together to try to make the protestors look bad and purposefully turn a blind eye to the right wingers causing problems.

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/

If words are too hard, here are some videos:

https://streamable.com/ypam81

https://v.redd.it/qqwp9m4a17251

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-D6NnZdDI&feature=youtu.be

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1266661155994550272

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1267140001952866304

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1267168431897444353

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1267468697595195397

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1267692198537068544

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1268047430026694657

https://twitter.com/Freeyourmindkid/status/1267160837401325569

https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1266924387795709954

Additionally, the vast majority of domestic terror attacks in the US in recent years have all been perpetrated by the violent right:

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/21/880963592/vehicle-attacks-rise-as-extremists-target-protesters

Right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports of at least 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests against police violence erupted nationwide in late May.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/22/white-supremacists-rightwing-domestic-terror-2020

White supremacists and other rightwing extremists have been responsible for 67% of domestic terror attacks and plots so far this year, with at least half of that violence targeting protesters, according to a new analysis from a centrist thinktank.

Rightoid terrorists using ISIS terror tactics to suppress the freedom to protest.

The first step toward recovery is to admit you have a problem, I've never denied the possibility that there were agitators out there

Honestly though, you are utterly delusional if you think that it's only the agitators that did the damage

There'd be a whole lot of arrest records of right wing folks if that were the case.

Which there aren't, not in numbers to support your claim.

and you're beyond a blithering idiot who barely has the brain function to keep from drooling on everything if you think there were right wing people in chop doing the collection of murders and all the damage there.

Grow up and accept the portion of responsibility your side has, I don't care which side you're on.

This man was not murdered by right wingers, he was murdered by violent blm rioters

#anonymous

[steamedtangerine]

So, Gaetz causes another timely disruption just as financing was about to go through to aid Ukraine.

-oh, but look, a year ago, it was discovered he got major funding (17,000-at least) from a Rockefeller heir with ties to Russian agent Maria Butina https://floridapolitics.com/archives/540444-matt-gaetz-campaign-gets-17k-from-rockefeller-heir-who-had-contact-with-russian-agent/

Maria Butina and her ties to Trump and the NRA https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/maria-butina/

#idiocracy #top tier

[gaynfl]

If we're talking about gay NFL players, Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs are also prime candidates!

Stefon joined the Bills in 2020. Later, for Christmas in 2021, Josh got him a Rolex watch with the word "Slime" engraved on the back. According to this article (https://heavy.com/sports/buffalo-bills/stefon-diggs-christmas-gift-josh-allen/), the term Slime means "someone who’s your best friend, who you consider close like family."

So while that above definition isn't completely gay, it does strike me as interesting, especially when considering that Josh didn't gift a Rolex to anybody else.

As for recent news of the pair, Stefon hasn't been at OTA's yet, in part because of how he went out after the Bills lost to the Bengals this past season. Stefon left the Bills stadium as soon as he could after that game and hasn't been seen or heard from a lot ever since then.

But Josh hasn't given up yet, saying in this article (https://www.si.com/nfl/bills/news/buffalo-bills-stefon-diggs-otas-absent-skip-workout-josh-allen-rumors-brandon-beane), "Stef’s gonna Stef. I love the guy. He's one of my favorite people on this planet. He is so fiery, so competitive. He wants the ball in his hands 24/7 and I’m never gonna not like a guy like that. He wants what’s best for the team.”

It's clear to me that Josh knows his boy and feels confident that he will be back to fight another day with him and the rest of the team, even with this minor setback!!

They really seem like they are gonna be together for the long-haul, no matter what. 🥰

JOSH ALLEN HAS ME LIKE

[dark-wackademia]

my new history ship

(its an edit^ but DAMN!)

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a37713234/james-dean-queer-icon/

https://screenrant.com/rebel-without-cause-movie-gay-subtext-groundbreaking/

https://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/03/marlon-brando-james-dean-history-sexual-relationship-master-slave-s-and-m-gay-secret-lovers/

#my newest ship #history ship #james dean #Brando Marlon #james x brando #history crushes #gay #bi

[woppy42]

You recently reposted a screenshot of a tweet about DDG blocking independent news sources. The article from the tweet (from newspunch.com) was debunked as totally fabricated and refuted as fake news, FYI

Newspunch is listed as a fake news site here, which also has some more history on another name they've used: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/websites-post-fake-satirical-stories/

The claimed censorship was in March 2022 and was in reference to the downranking of Russian misinformation sites in the wake of the attack on Ukraine, which DDG announced publicly (like many other search engines).

More info here: https://heavy.com/news/duckduckgo-ceo-not-purging-independent-media/

Sorry for the wall of text, just thought you might want to know about sharing misinformation.

Oh crap. Thank you! I knew I should have checked that before reblogging.

[ubazone]

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[revcleo]

I ain't sure about the cole brings plenty thing like it feels to me like people are doing some pepe silvia like there's very few public facts

(they're all listed here https://heavy.com/news/cole-brings-plenty-dead-death/ )

I think it's best to just wait on the situation and listen to what the family wants, this gotta be hard for them no matter what

#people are very quick to jump to true crime theorising #just let time do it's thing at least #jesus

[healthandwealthonline]

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[arifeinberg]

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#hanukkah

[rebeleden]

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[galvenporter]

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[steamedtangerine]

Been thinking a lot about the last 5 years, and where we were in the thick of Trump-culture. We were all tired, beleaguered, and lured into a gradual acceptance and higher tolerance scale of perpetual outrage at things that should've never been allowed to happen.

This was a post I put out in reply to a typical d!psh!t poster on Reddit. It included a link to an iconic post from /r/Fuckthealtright. Both catalog a laundry list of atrocities and threats coming from the overlap of GOP/white supremacists/Islamaphobes/Trumpers/libertarians and conservative whatnot going back to 2014. The post became so weighty, that by the tenth time I updates it, Reddit informed me I had reached my character limit (again), and I could only compress it down so much to accommodate for each new inevitable threat coming from the right. That alone should say a enough in squashing any "bOTh SIdEs" argument or BS attempt to frame the left ("antifa", etc.) as dangerous.

Shame I gave up though, even all during COVID we had nuts driving trains into boats, Q-nuts speargunning their kids or killing their family (or selves), conspiracy nuts detonating RVs during the holidays, people trying to run campaign buses off roads, hit squads sent to shoot up houses of opposing politicians in New Mexico, school/mall (from this: https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/patrick-crusius/ to this: https://heavy.com/news/mauricio-garcia/ ) /supermarket shootings, sickos attacking the spouses of congressional leaders, attempts on synagogues, attempts on power grids (from this: https://heavy.com/news/moore-county-power-outage-substation-attack/ to this: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64493319 -which included a person mentioned in my previous links-the Nazi was written about in Rolling Stone, but while imprisoned, they networked with more people to make attempts-like he had always boasted-once released.) and the mess that was the January 6th insurrection....and still much more.....

#idiocracy #atrocity #top tier

[steadhammond]

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[coachpurseandacracklighter]

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