President Joe Biden called on Americans to work together to address white supremacism and hate-fuelled violence – a “stain on the soul of America” – following an apparent racist massacre in which an 18-year-old suspected gunman espoused antisemitic and racist views before killing 10 people and injuring at least three others at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Eleven of the victims are Black.
In remarks before the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on 14 May, the president said “a lone gunman armed with weapons of war and a hate-filled soul shot and killed 10 innocent people in cold blood at a grocery store on Saturday afternoon.”
