senseless act of racist terrorism committed here in the united states. this white gunman walking into the grocery store in buffalo, new york, this weekend. this was a majority neighborhood, and the evidence shows the shooter knew that, going on to kill ten peerj injuring three more. the city s worst mass shooting ever. authorities say this alleged shooter planned to continue an attack beyond the supermarket and the plan was specifically to target more black people like those targeted inside the store, had he not been stopped by police. they arrive on the scene within minutes and we have more on the response program later. but the suspect has been identified as 18-year-old payton gendron. authorities say he was armed with an ar-15 rifle, body armor. he has been charged with first-degree murder. the fbi also investigating this as a federal hate crime. civil rights attorney ben crump also discussing it, as i just mentioned, as domestic terror. this was an act of domestic terro
moment, police were at the highest possible legal threshold for firing a weapon, for using deadly force, and they didn t by contrast, two months ago police used deadly force on dominic thomas whence he was suffering mental health and was seen with a knife. they used deadly force to shoot a homeless man accused of swings a bat at an officer. neither had a gun. neither were accused of killing a person, let alone ten people moments before. but they were both black. and for all the talk about the danger facing police or the facts of a given incident, which do matter, the data still shows that race drives different outcomes here. discrimination and policing shape actions sometimes more than an active mass shooter,
become critical exposing police who commit abuse or clarify uncertainties. there are as many officers that have been exonerated by their dashcam videos showing they did exactly what they were supposed to do and there was no misbehavior on their part as it has helped in evidentiary case, too. beerman says dashcams are also powerful teaching tools for officers to review what they did right and wrong in a given incident. and he says they can help police with public messaging to explain why they used force in certain moments and that can help reduce tension between police and their communities. that s something after all these incidents desperately needed right now. certainly is. brian, thanks so much. coming up shocking allegations against tsa officers who are supposed to keep all of us safe. two of them have been fired after authorities say they discovered them plotting to grope passengers. we have much more coming up on this hour s breaking news how did a mailman on what he ca
want to take your life. jamie, you spend meaningful portions of your television career on tv being asked your opinion about a given incident. i don t want to hear your opinion on an incident, i want to hear your opinion on culture that continues to bear out incidents like this, like toxic waste. right, right. and i want to thank you for having this conversation, because this, dylan, is the conversation we need to have. dr. chavis just said something critically important. this is not and so have you. this is not about a single incident, this is not about a single case. all of these cases in that beautiful piece you just aired, they re all linked, and they re linked to so many other cases that you did not have time to go over. countless cases that we all know, going all the way back to emmettville and before. this is a story that is part of