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latest. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. a suspect is behind bars following a deadly mass shooting that set the community of buffalo, new york on edge. 18-year-old payton has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of at least 10 people. he pleaded not guilty. police call it racially motivated. it happened in a largely black neighborhood. investigators are also reviewing a 180 page manifesto in which he describes his perceptions of the dwindling size of the white population. governor hochul condemned the racial extremism. here she is. military-style execution targeting people who simply want to buy groceries in a neighborhood store. it strikes us in our very hearts to know that there is such evil that lurks out there. police say the alleged shooter wasn t from the area and traveled hours to carry out the shooting in buffalo. this was pure evil. it was straight up racially motivated hate crime from so ....
Targeting people who simply want to buy groceries in a neighborhood store. it strikes us in our very hearts to know that there is such evil that lurks out there. police say the alleged shooter wasn t from the area and traveled hours to carry out the shooting in buffalo. this was pure evil. it was straight up racially motivated hate crime from somebody outside our community, outside of the city of good neighbors, coming into our community and trying to inflict that evil upon us. a union representative for the supermarket employees said a worker at the store called him after the deadly shooting and described the shear chaos she witnessed at the scene. i hear that somebody came in, heavily armed, just walked in and starts shooting. ....
Latino. i am comfortable in my own skin and i am not going to let fear guide my life. for us to have all this happening in el paso recently then on top of that this horrible act, it is it is really you feel like sort of the ground underneath you is not stable, but we re also americans and we want to be a part of this cult. we re. reporter: the sentiment speaks to the city s rots and they say it s harmony. our city is not aggressive, so when somebody takes a narrative and puts demonizes our community our immigrants, whatever it is, that s happening out of confusion or fear mongering or a need to raise your base or to get a good reaction from a crowd, i find it hard for our city to react appropriately because we re not aggressive. like, we are literally the city that turns the other cheek. reporter: but today they say is not the day to turn the other way. i don t hesitate to say, you know, that there is a there are some clear lines there, right? ....
And it s it s scary and it s sad. reporter: in el paso, the hurt is overwhelming for these lifelong residents of the majority latino city there is pain, anger and shock. sometimes all at once. this was an act of terrorism against our community and against people of color, specifically latinos that look just like me, my daughter, my neighbor, my friends. reporter: and for some that s a difficult thing to internalize. do you feel like in any ways this was spoken into existence? there is a tradition throughout the world of othering people and demonizing people who are different from you. that is not a new history in this country. i think where we are right now is that for the last two years the narrative has been about demonizing people that look like me. are you scared now to be latina? no! i am i am resolved to be ....
So when somebody takes a narrative and puts demonizes our community, our immigrants, whatever it is, that s happening out of confusion or fearmongering or a need to raise your base or to get a good reaction from a crowd, i find it hard for our city to react appropriately because we re not aggressive. like, we are literally the city that turns the other cheek. reporter: but today they say is not the day to turn the other way. i don t hesitate to say, you know, that there is a there are some clear lines there, right? we re rapists, we re, you know, all this stuff and we re taking over the country. then we re invading. and then action takes place. and it s only a matter of time you do that so many times that somebody s bound to do something hateful. reporter: the alleged shooter wasn t from el paso, so why did he spend ten hours in a car driving more than 600 miles to carry out his alleged attack here? many here feel president trump bears some of the blame. that s only in th ....