The American vice president spoke about a “hate epidemic” in the USA Kamala Harry, after armed attack on a white 18-year-oldwho killed ten people in his black neighborhood supermarket Buffalo of its state New York.
“Law enforcement agencies are continuing their investigations, but what is clear is that we are witnessing an outbreak of hatred in our country, which is manifested in acts of violence and intolerance,” the US vice president said in a statement.
“Hate crimes with racist motives “Or acts of violent extremism are blows for all of us.”
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American society is in shock after yesterday’s tragic incident, in which an 18-year-old white American shot and killed 10 people and injured three others in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in a neighborhood where mostly African Americans live, before surrendering to the police.
US authorities have spoken of a “hate crime” and an act of “violent extremism with racist motives”.
Authorities said the perpetrator, who was armed with an assault rifle and appeared to have acted alone, drove “several hours” from his home to Buffalo, where he launched the attack, which he broadcast online via a camera he carried on himself. Eleven of the 13 people he shot were African-Americans, according to police officials.
The perpetrator was heavily armed and wore a bulletproof vest and helmet.
When he was confronted by police in the lobby of the store, he aimed his gun at his throat, but police persuaded him to drop it and surrender, Buffalo Police Chief Joseph Gramalia told a news conference.
The gunman shot and killed three people in the parking lot before exchanging fire with a former police officer who worked as a security guard at the store, but the perpetrator was protected by the bulletproof vest he was wearing. The security guard was one of ten people killed by the butcher, while the other nine were customers of the store.
The three injured are employees of the store, whose lives do not seem to be in danger, according to the authorities.
Steven Bellonzia, head of the FBI’s Buffalo office, said the attack would be investigated as a hate crime and an act of “violent extremism with racist motives” under federal law.
“It was a hate crime, with clear racist motives, by someone outside our community,” said Erie County Sheriff John Garcia.
“It’s a day of great pain for our community,” the Buffalo mayor told reporters. “Many of us have visited this supermarket several times. We can not allow this hated person to divide our community or our country.”
New York Democrat Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Justice Committee, said the attack appeared to be the work of a white racist and tweeted: “We need to pass a law to prevent domestic terrorism without delay. ».
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