Biden condemns Buffalo mass shooting as terrorism and denounces white supremacy as ‘a poison’
by Courtney Subramanian and Nolan D. McCaskill, Los Angeles Times
May 17, 2022
3 minutes
BUFFALO, N.Y. — President Joe Biden on Tuesday condemned Saturday’s deadly mass shooting in Buffalo as a “racist rampage” and an act of “domestic terrorism,” calling on Americans to reject the racist theory that authorities say appeared to have motivated the gunman to carry out the massacre.
“White supremacy is a poison running through our body politic. And it’s been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes,” Biden told grieving families during an impassioned speech at a community center.
“In America,” he added, “evil will not win,
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