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Biden condemns Buffalo mass shooting as terrorism and denounces white supremacy as ‘a poison’

President Joe Biden stands back as first lady Dr. Jill Biden places flowers at a memorial just across the street of the Tops Friendly Market at Jefferson Avenue and Riley Street on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. The killing of 10 people in a historically Black neighborhood of Buffalo is being investigated as a hate crime and an act of "racially motivated...

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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