Hate In Buffalo News Today

who lost their lives defending our nation and our freedoms. were glad youre with us. with us today, we have my friend msnbc contributor mike barnicle. were going to jump right into the news. the justice department is opening a review into the law enforcement response to the school shooting in uvalde, texas, after authorities there admitted to a stunning string of failures last week. this as the president and first lady jill biden visited robb elementary school yesterday and met with ...

Different. >> well, clearly, in the next week, there are going to be a number of funerals. i mean, this is going to be devastating. but ive just been thinking about the summer. i mean, this is going to be something these children and their parents will have some time to recoup, but i cant help but think, theres also just going to be this dread hanging over the summer of when school starts. what do you do? what do you do with the school? i think theres so many questions ahead of this community th...

In addition to speaking separately with first responders and law enforcement. they also joined members of the community for sunday mass at the citys only catholic church. while leaving that service, the president gave his only public comments on the trip, responding to a crowd of spectators demanding legislative action. >> do something! >> do something! >> we will. we will. >> he said, "we will. we will." well go live no uvalde in a moment. first, more on this critical moment for the president. ...

Especially compared to his two predecessors. when something like this happened during president trumps administration, there was usually a lot of controversy surrounding something he may have said about it. then you go back to the president, when biden was vp, barack obama, he often came into these cities and gave these inspirational speeches. in tucson, charleston. the images were public, but the remarks were private. it was somber, and it was very focused toward the victims, the survivors, the...

Being a political figure, which he wont be. president biden doesnt give a big speech in texas. he goes to the confines of the school and meets with the mourners, the victims families. he doesnt come out and grab the microphone. he doesnt need the attention because he knows the feeling of pain and loss, and he knows the damage thats been done to this country. not just by buffalo and not just by uvalde, texas, but the damage done every day by violence. violence from handguns. no one is coming to t...

I talked to the president about it on wednesday when he signed the executive order on -- in terms of police accountability on the anniversary of george floyds second anniversary. he is aware of our quest to have a white house summit. vice president kamala harris came on this weekend to the last funeral on saturday, attended. i even was able to convince her to speak. i called her up to speak. she said she didnt want to speak. her words was a commitment toward fighting this hate. so i think we wil...

Then a fiery call for change. yet, nothing ever seems to do so. >> absolutely. >> jonathan, you know, the culture -- >> go ahead, mike. >> go ahead, rev. >> no, go ahead, mike. i was just going to say, i dont want to see these scenes become normalized. i hope they become wake-up calls, not just here we go through checking the box kind of procedure. >> yeah. you know, the culture moves incredibly quickly. we all know that, with all the tools we have. the phones and texting and its things are endi...

Reverend al sharpton. thanks for being here. we played some of your powerful words this weekend in buffalo. the nation was already reeling from that shooting, a racist shooting carried out by a white supremacist with a weapon of war, when not even two weeks later, we have this massacre at a texas school. give us a sense as to how the people there are doing in western new york. what is the status of that community now that the final funerals have been held? >> well, they are still in mourning. th...