Several organizations in the Beehive State are responding to the mass shooting that took place at a supermarket in a predominately Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York this weekend.
Eleven of the 13 people who were shot Saturday at the Tops Market were Black. In all, 10 people were killed.
"A person's going to the grocery store on a Saturday morning, going to do the regular chores, and then they don't get to go back home because they've been shot and killed," said Williams.The suspected gunman, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, is said to have targeted that area of Buffalo because of its dense African-American population."We just see so many different mass murders...
They said, in part, that they acknowledge the pain and racism that their partner communities are once again having to endure. They also say they are mourning with the families who have been affected by the vile hatred of racism.
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