buffalo super market in predominantly black area travelled 200 miles to the same area two months earlier. we have confirmed now it appears that individual was here back a couple of months ago in early march. that raises so many questions, what he was doing there at that time, obviously, first and foremost and this chilling detail as we re getting new video of the suspect taken into custody tonight. police commissioner revealing he had heavy plated armor on and was wearing a tactical helmet at the time of his arrest. cnn obtaining this image of two of the rifles found inside the alleged gunman s car and one of the guns, see what appears to be the phrase, white lives matter. we have much more on the investigation from the police commissioner but we want you to know who the victims are. roberta had just gone to the super market to buy groceries for dinner, family says she moved to buffalo eight years ago to help her brother under going treatment for leukemia, was 32 years ol
this racist replacement theory are part to blame for this attack. these public figures are absolutely complicit. they trade in hate speech, they propagate hate speech. they try to proliferate hate speech and indoctrineate people in the community on these misguided theories. outfront now, president of the aacp branch in buffalo. and reverend, i m so sorry for this horror that has been inflicted on your community. do you agree with the mayor? i agree that this hate speech has been propagated and has been shared with all of social media, but i also caution, we need to deal with all media because how they marginalize african americans and minorities, how they stereotype us.
there s not a good light in which they see african americans and minorities, especially in families. so it s very important that we eliminate this and that s one of the main tenants of the naacp is to eradicate racism. so you are standing in buffalo, born and raised there, i know, you know, the 20-year-old shot in the neck but acc miraculously survived. how are you helping people in the community now in the face of such a traumatic, horrific event? one of the things our branch is doing is setting up a gofundme page to help the victims that have been ravagely taken advantage of in this era. all of naacp will be following with us as we sent a link to our state president and as she sends it out to all the naacp branchs,
20 minutes ago i witnessed a mass shooting at a top support market live on twitch with like 20 other viewers. twitch took down the video they said two minutes after the violence began but it wasn t soon enough. people on that website on 4chan started organizing, started sharing tips on how they could re-upload copies of the video and what we ve seen over the past 48 hours or so is videos uploaded across the internet on to social media platforms, being viewed millions of times, some news outlets are estimating. so look, there is, this is the kind of perverse fact of the matter here is that there is an audience for this content. there are supporters for it and a lot of people with kind of morbid sense of curiosity who want to watch this stuff. okay, thank you very much, and incredible. you go from 20 people, as was said up to a million watching it. well the mayor of buffalo told cnn moments ago, people pushing
loved. patterson shot outside the store, known for giving people rides home even if they had no money, and katherine massey, civil rights advocate who fought to prevent needless shootings in buffalo, killed in one, and pearl young, substitute teacher, friends say she pent her saturdays running a food pantry to feed the hungry and then the oldest victim, ruth whitfield 86 years old, just returning from visiting her husband in a nursing home as she did everyday, stopped to pick up groceries on the way home. and outfront in buffalo, what more are you learning about this horrific shooting? reporter: well, erin, investigators are continuing to piece together more and more from what happened leading up to and during this particular shooting. video from inside the grocery store at one point shows the alleged shooter point his rifle at a person before saying sorry, then moving on to continue to