The Buffalo mass shooting comes amid rise in racial violence in US
by Richard Luscombe from US news | The Guardian on (#5Z8RF)
Hate-based crime has been getting worse in recent years, largely cultivated in the cauldron of darkest reaches of the internet
The story is, by now, nauseatingly familiar. From Charleston to El Paso, from Pittsburgh to San Diego, and from Christchurch, New Zealand, to the latest scene of horror in Buffalo, New York, each of these mass shootings is stitched with one common thread: white supremacy.
As investigators begin to piece together the details of Saturday's massacre at the Tops Friendly Market that killed 10, the motivation of the murderer already seems in little doubt.
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