senseless act of racist terrorism committed here in the united states. this white gunman walking into the grocery store in buffalo, new york, this weekend. this was a majority neighborhood, and the evidence shows the shooter knew that, going on to kill ten peerj injuring three more. the city s worst mass shooting ever. authorities say this alleged shooter planned to continue an attack beyond the supermarket and the plan was specifically to target more black people like those targeted inside the store, had he not been stopped by police. they arrive on the scene within minutes and we have more on the response program later. but the suspect has been identified as 18-year-old payton gendron. authorities say he was armed with an ar-15 rifle, body armor. he has been charged with first-degree murder. the fbi also investigating this as a federal hate crime. civil rights attorney ben crump also discussing it, as i just mentioned, as domestic terror. this was an act of domestic terro
replacement theory is a that we ll do to them what they have been doing to us for generations and that tells you all you need to know. that fear mixed with a projected abuse of power or injustice traffics with a kind of awareness. there s long running debate on immigration in this country. in the original report we did on this, again, whether it s sort of i m being annoyingly lawyerly repetitive or not, we took pains to mention there s of course legitimate debates over immigration policy and how do you it and how open or closed the door is and what s going on in the world and what s going on with refugees, right? this is distinct and different because it presupposes a racist, anti-semitic, anti-muslim, religiously bigoted system, that s a closed system. so you are exiting the land of policy and going into this. yet i go to those pains to mention all that nuance because people who don t follow as
senseless act of racist terrorism committed here in the united states. this white gunman walking into the grocery store in buffalo, new york, this weekend. this was a majority neighborhood, and the evidence shows the shooter knew that, going on to kill ten peerj injuring three more. the city s worst mass shooting ever. authorities say this alleged shooter planned to continue an attack beyond the supermarket and the plan was specifically to target more black people like those targeted inside the store, had he not been stopped by police. they arrive on the scene within minutes and we have more on the response program later. but the suspect has been identified as 18-year-old payton gendron. authorities say he was armed with an ar-15 rifle, body armor. he has been charged with first-degree murder. the fbi also investigating this as a federal hate crime. civil rights attorney ben crump also discussing it, as i just
partisan lens, where this came from out of hateful corner of europe and where this is going is really not about parties. it is about trying to have a race war. this alleged gunman invokes the great replacement theory. now, i want to say, on our msnbc coverage from across the weekend through tonight there is a careful goal not to indiscriminantly echo every piece of this, claim or lie inside the conspiracy theory. to show the exact evidence, though, of the link to this very serious mass murder this weekend, i m now going to quote a portion of this suspect s claims for you, including his admission his admission that this exact racist world view is what got him thinking about committing violence. quote, i learned that the white race is dying out, that blacks are disproportionately killing whites. we are doomed by high rates of
been paying attention. for all the outrage over that particular killing, the police use of deadly force continues at the same pace, the same rate in america this year, a steady line, as you see there from the washington post count. so after an alleged racist killing spree directed at black americans this weekend, the unusual restraint in peacefully apprehending this apparently active shooter holding a gun when they got there is very notable, just as it was when police peacefully about rehended dylann roof after he murdered nine people in a hate crime in south carolina. the buffalo shooter will get his day in court. this double standard run from the government tot discourse we have which shapes the way we and jurors think about these cases. when police killed an unarmed 18-year-old, michael brown, which set off the ferguson protests in the obama era, the nonpartisan associated press report he was a man posing that