Joe Biden: hate remains ‘stain on the soul of America’ after Buffalo shooting that killed 10
- Speaking in Washington at a service for fallen police officers, the US president said: ‘We must all … address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America’
- On Saturday a gunman killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Officials are investigating the rampage as a racially motivated hate crime
US President Joe Biden offered a potent condemnation of racist extremism Sunday after a murderous rampage in Buffalo, and he called for citizens to end the hate that remains a “stain on the soul of America.”
“A lone gunman, armed with weapons of war and a hateful soul, shot and killed 10 innocent people in cold blood at a grocery store on Saturday afternoon” in western New York state, Biden said in Washington at a service for fallen US police officers.
“We must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of America,” the president said.
US authorities were “still gathering the facts,” Biden added.
But he noted that the Justice Department has announced it is investigating the rampage “as a hate crime, racially motivated act of white supremacy and violent extremism.”
“Hearts are heavy once again,” Biden said, “but our resolve must never, ever waver.”