One year after the racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., community members are still grappling with the tragic loss of 10 people.
“He killed the best of us,” Eva Doyle, a retired public school teacher and frequent shopper at the supermarket, told Yahoo News.
The gunman, Payton Gendron, was sentenced earlier this year to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to murder charges. During his sentencingand said:"I did a terrible thing that day. I shot and killed people because they were Black." “Payton Gendron has pled guilty to these murders, and is no longer a danger to society,” John Elmore, one of the lawyers representing the families, said in a statement. “However, the social media platforms that radicalized him, and the companies that armed him, must still be held accountable for their actions. Our goal, on behalf of our clients, is to make this community and our nation safer and prevent other mass shootings.”, there have been 213 mass shootings in the United States this year.
But Henry-Louis Taylor Jr., the director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University of Buffalo, says the Tops shooting sheds light on the distinction between loud and quiet racism. Taylor says that for Black people in East Buffalo, the lack of adequate housing, jobs and education has not lessened. “Most Blacks live on Buffalo’s East Side, and conditions are getting worse in many of those neighborhoods. The fate of Black Buffalo remains tied to East Side development.”in East Buffalo to address disparities in the community.
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