Lawyer Ben Crump Believes The Buffalo Mass Shooting Should Be Treated As ‘Act of Domestic Terrorism’
Since the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York over the weekend when a 18-year-old targeted Black people to murder, civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump has urged President Joe Biden to take action on an anti-Black hate crime bill. Crump is now representing one of the victims’ families who was killed by Payton Gendron The Guardian reported.
Crump is representing the family of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield who was killed in the shooting. Whitfield was one of 10 people murdered when the teen targeted Black victims and wounded three others in the shooting.
Crump is demanding law enforcement treat this act as an “act of domestic terrorism.”
“This was an act of domestic terrorists, and America responds to terrorism at every level, and they have to do that here,” Crump said at a press conference. “Just because it was a Black grocery store doesn’t make it any less than any other massacres, whether it’s Columbine or the Oklahoma City bombing.”
“We can’t sugarcoat it; we can’t try to explain it away talking about mental illness. No, this was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated by a young white supremacist.”
Crump added that federal legislators should now go ahead and pass a hate crimes bill that currently sits before Congress, the George Floyd Justice in Policing bill.
“Black America is suffering right now,” he said. “And we need to know that our top leader in America reacts and responds when we are hurt.”
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