Biden tells Buffalo shooting mourners: ‘Evil will not win. Hate will not prevail’ – as it happened

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My colleague Ed Helmore is at the site of Saturday's mass shooting in Buffalo, and sent this dispatch about the importance to the predominantly Black community of the supermarket where it happened:

Tops Friendly on Jefferson Avenue in East Buffalo was more than just a grocery store. It served as community center, a place to hang out, a source of employment - and a spot for healthy sustenance unavailable at bodega stores in an area described as the oasis in a food desert.