POLL FOUND 59% OF AMERICANS SAY CRIME SHOULD BE A HIGHER PRIORITY ISSUE. AND 61%
DISAPPROVE OF HOW THE
PRESIDENT IS HANDLING IT. IN
BUFFALO, THE COMMUNITY
SURROUNDING THAT STORY’S
GRIEVING. SOME HAVE LOST THEIR
NEIGHBORS, FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
REPORTER WALKER GRAHAM IS
THERE TONIGHT IN THAT
COMMUNITY. CONTINUING OUR TEAM
COVERAGE.
>> GOOD EVENING TO YOU. FROM
BUFFALO, THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF
TOWN TONIGHT AS FBI
INVESTIGATORS CONTINUE TO
PROCESS THE SCENE INSIDE TOPS
FRIENDLY MARKET COMMUNITY
MEMBERS REFLECT ON HOW THEY
FEEL. THERE’S A LOT OF
SADNESS, A LOT OF ANGER TO
OVER THE RACISM. THEY SAY FUEL
18 YEAR-OLD PAYTON JEN
TRANSACTIONS.
>> AS NIGHT FELL IN BUFFALO
PRAYERS LIFTED HOPE THAT THE
PAIN WILL PASS MY FAMILY VISIT
EACH AND EVERY FAMILY THAT HAS
LOST SOMEBODY. HEALING WILL
TAKE TIME SAYS NEW YORK
ASSEMBLYWOMAN CRYSTAL PEOPLE
STOKES MAJORITY LEADER OF THE
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY.
PEOPLE STOKES HARD IN THE
STREET NEXT TO THE GROCERY
STORE IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD. SHE
SAID ALSO ANGRY PEOPLE WOULD
TRAVEL FROM THEIR OWN
COMMUNITY.
>> WITH THEIR SAFE MINE TO
COME AND HURT, WITH WAY
CHELSEA WILLIAMS WORKS AT A
NEARBY HOSPITAL SAID SHE HAD
TO COME SEE FOR YOURSELF. HE
CAME TO A GROCERY THIS COULD
HAVE BEEN ANY STORM. BUT IT
WAS THE TOPS AT JEFFERSON AND
RILEY LIKELY INTENTIONAL
STRESS OFFICIALS BECAUSE OF
THE NEIGHBORHOODS, MAJORITY
BLACK COMPOSITION, THE SLOGAN
AROUND. LIKE BUBBLES THE CITY
GOOD NEIGHBORS. AND SO TO SEE
SOMETHING LIKE THIS HERE IN
THIS COMMUNITY JUST SO REAL
FOR ME. AND I NEVER THOUGHT I
WOULD SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT
AROUND HERE. YOU SEE IT IN
OTHER PLACES AROUND THE
COUNTRY. NICE. LEWIS BROUGHT A
BOUQUET OF FLOWERS TO ONE OF
MANY MEMORIALS, LEWIS’S GRIEF
DEEPENED BY HER THOUGHTS. SHE
SAYS HER SON CALLED OR
SATURDAY ASKING IF SHE KNEW
WHAT HAD HAPPENED THEIR
NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY STORE. I
BROKE DOWN SAYS I WAS ON MY
WAY. THEY
>> I BUT I KEPT PRESSING MAY
NOT SO I BELIEVE MY LIFE WAS
SPARED. SADNESS GRIPS THE
BLOCK. THE CITY.
>> ANGER HAS A PLACE HERE,
TOO, SAID TONY ARRINGTON.
>> IT BECOMES TIRING AND
LITTLE BROTHER. I HAVE LITTLE
SISTERS. AND IF GARY COULD
EVEN GO OUT TO THE GROCERY
STORE TO WHAT CAN HAPPEN.
>> WITNESSES DESCRIBED HEARING
20 OR MORE GUNSHOTS SATURDAY.
INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY WILL
CONTINUE TO COLLECT AND
PROCESS EVIDENCE INSIDE THE
STORE. THEY SAY THAT THEY’RE
IN THE EARLY STAGES OF WHAT
WILL BE A VERY LENGTHY
INVESTIGATION. REPORTING FROM
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, I’M BRANDON
WALKER. BACK TO YOU.
>> ERIK: HERE IN CENTRAL
FLORIDA, LAWMAKERS AND
COMMUNITY MEMBERS ALSO SAY
THAT THEY ARE OUTRAGE OVER THE
SHOOTING NEWS SIX’S JERRY
ASKIN IS TALKING TO THEM
TONIGHT. JERRY THERE. GOOD
EVENING. AND RIGHT NOW HERE IN
CENTRAL FLORIDA, MANY ELECTED
LEADERS ARE WEIGHING IN, SOME,
IN FACT, CALLING FOR MORE
RESTRICTIONS WHEN IT COMES TO.
>> ACCESSING ASSAULT WEAPONS.
I SPOKE ALSO TO A LOCAL BLACK
COMMUNITY LEADER WHO SET THESE
ACCUSATIONS ARE NOT OKAY.
>> IT DOESN’T HURT TO WAVELAND
ACCUSATIONS ARE NOT OKAY.
>> IT DOESN’T HURT TO WAVELAND ‘Cause even small THAT THAT’S NOT HOW YOU WANT
LIFE IN THE OUTRAGE AND
FRUSTRATION EXTENDING HERE TO
CENTRAL FLORIDA AFTER
INVESTIGATORS SAY 18 YEAR-OLD
PAYTON GINTER AND OPENED FIRE
AT THIS GROCERY STORE IN
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, SATURDAY,
KILLING 10 PEOPLE AND INJURING
SEVERAL OTHERS. AUTHORITIES
SAY 11 VICTIMS WERE BLACK AND
THEY’RE CALLING THE ATTACK A
HATE CRIME. READING OF 50
WHERE PEOPLE. TRYING
>> I THINK PEOPLE OUT BECAUSE
OF THE COLOR THERE’S BEER. AND
THEN IF SOMEONE HAS DONE SO
MUCH WORK IN THE ORLANDO
COMMUNITY IN CENTRAL FLORIDA
TO BRING ABOUT EQUALITY AND
YOU KNOW, WHERE DO WE GO FROM
HERE? WE HAVE TO KEEP MOVEMENT
GOING TO PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND
THAT THERE’S STILL REASON OF
OTHERS WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE
BIGOTED AND WE NEED TO PUSH AN
OUT AND MANY OF OUR LAWMAKERS
FROM CENTRAL FLORIDA ARE
REACTING TO.
>> INCLUDING FLORIDA STATE
REPRESENTATIVE ANNA ESKAMANI
OF ORLANDO. TIME AND TIME
AGAIN. WE SEE THESE ACTS OF
GUN VIOLENCE OFTEN MOTIVATED
BY BY SOME FORM OF HATE AND
OTHERNESS PERPETUATED TOWARDS
GROUPS ARE DIFFERENT. IT’S
INCREDIBLY HEARTBREAKING. AND
FLORIDA STATE REPRESENTATIVE
RANDY FINE OF BREVARD COUNTY
SAID IN PART, QUOTE, IN THE
AFTERMATH OF THIS HORRIFIC
ATTACK, WE MUST UNITE TO FIGHT
THOSE SO FULL OF HATE. THEY
WILL KILL THOSE, UNLIKE BEEN
IN QUOTE AND U.S.
CONGRESSWOMAN VAL DEMINGS OF
ORLANDO TWEETING IN PART,
QUOTE, WE MUST DO MORE TO
BUILD A NATION WHERE ALL
PEOPLE ARE SAFE. I KNOW WE CAN
DO BETTER FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
AND OUR CHILDREN. INJURING NOW
DO BETTER FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
AND OUR CHILDREN. INJURING NOW ‘Cause even small CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE
MURDER. HE PLED NOT GUILTY AND
REMAINS BEHIND BARS. IN