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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

The Buffalo mass shooting comes amid rise in racial violence in US

People gather outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday.
People gather outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

The story is, by now, nauseatingly familiar. From Charleston to El Paso, from Pittsburgh to San Diego, and from Christchurch, New Zealand, to the latest scene of horror in Buffalo, New York, each of these mass shootings is stitched with one common thread: white supremacy.

As investigators begin to piece together the details of Saturday’s massacre at the Tops Friendly Market that killed 10, the motivation of the murderer already seems in little doubt.

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