President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are in Buffalo, where they paid their respects at a makeshift memorial outside the supermarket where a white supremacist killed 10 people in a racist attack on Saturday.
The White House said the president and the first lady will “grieve with the community that lost 10 lives in a senseless and horrific mass shooting.” Three more people were wounded. Nearly all the victims were Black, including all of those who died.
The shooter’s hateful writings echoed those of the white supremacists who marched with torches in 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia, a scene that Biden said inspiredagainst President Donald Trump in 2020 and that drove him to join what he calls the “battle for the soul of America.” Payton Gendron, 18, was arrested at the supermarket and charged with murder. He has pleaded not guilty.
In the years since Charlottesville, replacement theory has moved from the online fringe to mainstream right-wing politics. A third of U.S. adults believe there is “a group of people in this country who are trying to replace native-born Americans with immigrants who agree with their political views,” according to a poll conducted in December by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
“So because a mentally ill teenager murdered strangers, you cannot be allowed to express your political beliefs out loud,” he said.
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