this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. y i m jake tapper. we start with our national lead. we expect an update from buffalo police after that racist massacre in upstate new york. ten innocent people killed by a racist domestic terrorist who targeted individuals in a predominantly black area of town saturday. officials say it could have been worse. police believe the shooter planned to continue his rampage after leaving the store with his sick goal of killing as many black people as possible. he was wearing tactical gear, armed with a semiautomatic rifle. he had surveilled the area the day before. this shows the moment the suspect was arrested. the erie county sheriff called the attack a straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside of our community. he lived at home with his parents more than three hours away. today, investigators are parsing through a 180-page screed written by the killer. it details how he had been radicalized and was fixate
absolutely. so jake, let s be clear about this. the racial terrorists in buffalo cites in his screed, his manifesto, as it were, other racial terrorists as examples. and the great replacement theory. the problem here is we have elected officials aut authenticati authenticating, sanitizing great replacement theory, making it mainstream. when you have a racial terrorist citing other racial terrorists, and citing their thinking, their theory, their conspiratorial imaginings as elected officials, members of congress are literally giving that license, giving that legitimacy, it is dangerous. so in other words, if you go