“The white gunman accused of a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as authorities investigated the massacre of Black people as a potential hate crime or act of domestic terrorism.
“The gunman, who had crossed the state to target the Tops Friendly Market, where he killed 10 people, had talked about shooting up another store as well, Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told CNN. ‘He was going to get in his car and continue to drive down Jefferson Avenue and continue doing the same thing,’ the commissioner said.
“His description was similar to portions of a racist 180-page document, purportedly written by Payton Gendron, that said the assault was intended to terrorize all nonwhite, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country.” Read the story here.
This sure looks like an admission of terrorist intent. That could get him prosecuted under federal terrorism statutes, which may earn him a one-way ticket to Florence ADX, where he can spend the rest of his days twiddling his thumbs inside a small concrete box. Or, alternatively, get the Timothy McVeigh treatment.
Related story: Civil rights attorney Ben Crump calls on federal officials to investigate the Buffalo shooting as an “act of domestic terrorism.” Read story here.