Since the Tops grocery store mass shooting a year ago, ABC News has been visiting Buffalo to help tell the stories of a community in mourning. Those interviewed say nothing much has changed in Buffalo—and they’re taking matters into their own hands.
But overwhelmingly, the sentiment of the people connected to the racially motivated tragedy is that they have been left behind, forgotten by their city and country amid a scourge of other mass shootings and gun violence.
But the community was shattered by a 1967 race riot and its consequences including white flight and the relocation of the stadium to the suburbs. “I believe 80% of people of color in the city of Buffalo live in East Buffalo,” said Garnell Whitfield. “And none of these things are by coincidence, it's by design, generational design, and what you see today, the blight, the hopelessness, the disease is all part of those intentional efforts down through the years.”
Charley Fisher III, a former member of the Buffalo, New York, Common Council, speaks of the history of the city's Black community and how he believes it is connected to the May 14, 2022, racially motivated massacre at a Tops supermarket. Photo by Malik Rainey for ABC News
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