Kamala Harris attends the funeral of a shooting victim
Key Takeaways:
- During an unscheduled comment at the burial of a Buffalo gunshot victim on Saturday, Kamala Harris called for unity.
- Harris and the second guy, Doug Emhoff, paid a visit to a memorial outside the supermarket after the funeral.
Kamala Harris appealed for unity during an unplanned remark at the burial of a Buffalo gunshot victim on Saturday. The US vice president reminded mourners at the Mount Olive Baptist Church in New York City that now is the time for "all good people" to stand up against injustice since other mass shootings have occurred around the country.
"This is a moment when all good people, all God-fearing people, must stand up and say, 'This will not stand.'" It's time to stop. "We will come together based on what we all understand we have in common, and then we will not allow those driven by hatred to divide us or instill fear in us," Harris said.
Harris continued, "govt is not sitting about waiting to find out what the solution looks like" to gun violence. "We must agree that if we are to be great as a nation, we must stand strong," she continued, defining our variety as our unity.
Mourners lay to rest the tenth and final black victim of a racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket.
Following the funeral, Harris and the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, paid a visit to a memorial outside the supermarket. The vice president left a large arrangement of white flowers at the memorial, and the two took a few minutes to pray.
On May 17, US President Joe Biden, as well as first Lady Jill Biden, paid a visit to the memorial and the family of the victim. He had criticized the violence and stated that the country "must reject the racial replacement argument as a lie." "America's diversity is its strength," Obama told the victim's family, "and a vicious minority must not pervert the nation." I promise you that evil will not triumph in America."
On May 14, a gunman dressed in military fatigues and live streaming with a helmet camera began firing with a rifle in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing ten people and injuring three more. A video of the man walking into the supermarket was also obtained, according to police sources. According to the authorities, 11 of the total murdered and injured victims were black as well as two were white.