back with politicsnation. as i said about buffalo new york, today where we had the funeral for whitfield who is an 86-year-old woman who was killed along with other in this race massacre. for you that could not watch it let me play some of the eulogy that i gave at midfield s funeral. we went from the back of the best to the front of the white house. ruth did not die in vain, because in her name, we re gonna put on the armor of righteousness. we re gonna build a new
shooting today. there is ways to put it into this, y all. the federal 1984 assault weapons ban is an example. this is a graph that shows the number of mass shootings that shows when an assault weapons was used before, and after the ban. when it was in effect just 53 shootings happen. after the ban, that number jumped to 182. don t tell me it cannot be done, because it has been done before. we have to do it for these babies in uvalde, who are just looking forward to summer break. we have to do it for that father in buffalo who just went to the store to get a son a birthday cake. we have to do it for the young people who don t have a good time at pulse nightclub. we have to do it for people who are worship-ing in charleston south carolina, in sacramento, california. in pittsburgh, pella sylvania. america, if this is not who we are, if this is not who we want
of exclusion. he got that down. i told the governor and others about keeping the if you can build a new stadium, you can build a new supermarket. and it s not either or, it s both and. we must fight. to make a new buffalo. so when they know that they shoot us whether we are black or latino, or jewish, or asian, or lgbtq, or disabled, that you re gonna make us come together. because we are the ones that put on the breastplate, and the helmet of righteousness. and you can t fight us when we
buffalo. in the name of these ten, we want economic development right here in buffalo. let the blood that was built be the water to cede a new buffalo. man can come is because he did his work, he did his research he figured out buffalo had a large concentration of blacks. and then he said, wait a minute they ve only got one black supermarket in the black community. so i wait till saturday afternoon, because a lot of them will be shopping. he figured out the demographics
massacre here in buffalo, in fact before we could even do all the funeral services, i spoke at two funeral services here yesterday, we had seen this massacre in uvalde, texas, and as we look at uvalde and look at buffalo, there is clearly a lot of reason for us to pause and put our heads down and say, what s happening in this nation? but also this week, two years after the murder of george floyd by a minneapolis policeman, we were not able to get federal legislation, but we were able to see the president of the united states, president joe biden, signing an executive order on policing and how we must hold police accountable,