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May 18, 2022

In Visit to Buffalo, Biden Denounces White Supremacy as a "Poison"
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President Biden visited Buffalo, New York, Tuesday, three days after an
18-year-old white supremacist shot dead 10 people at a supermarket in a
predominantly Black neighborhood. Biden denounced the attack as an act
of domestic terrorism and described white supremacy as a poison.

President Joe Biden: "Look, we've seen the mass shootings in Charleston,
South Carolina; El Paso, Texas; in Pittsburgh; last year in Atlanta;
this week in Dallas, Texas; and now in Buffalo - in Buffalo, New York.
White supremacy is a poison. It's a poison running through - it really
is."

Biden's trip to Buffalo comes as more details emerge about how the
gunman spent months plotting to carry out the mass shooting. Multiple
news outlets are reporting the gunman used the online platform Discord
to share details about his plot with a small group of people about 30
minutes before the massacre. No one who saw the messages is known to
have alerted law enforcement to the imminent attack.


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