Amid anger and grief, some Black residents of Buffalo are talking about guns
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on June 4, 2022
BUFFALO, N.Y. —
The gunman who killed 10 people at a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood on the East Side of Buffalo on Saturday took more than lives, residents say.
“He took a lot away from this community other than the lives of these people,” said Robin Truesdale, 57, who owns a small business near Tops Friendly Markets, where authorities said Payton Gendron, a white 18-year-old who lived 200 miles away in Conklin, N.Y., targeted Black shoppers in a racist rampage. “He took away also a much-needed resource ... a part of the . . .
