The white supremacist who murdered 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, was ushered out of the courtroom after a man charged him during the sentencing hearing on Feb. 15.
Payton Gendron, 19, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for murdering 10 people at the Tops Friendly Market in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo on May 14, 2022. Gendron had planned the mass murder for several months. During an emotional sentencing hearing, an unidentified man charged Gendron but was held back by several police officers as Gendron was quickly ushered to safety.
The incident happened just as Barbara Mapps was giving her victim impact statement. Massey’s sister, 72-year-old Katherine Massey, was murdered by Gendron at the grocery store. Mapps gave her impact statement and said she wanted to choke Gendron as a man stood behind her.
“You come to our city and decide you do not like Black people? Man, you don’t know a damn thing about Black people,” Massey said. “We’re human. We like our kids to go to a good school. We love our kids. We’d never go to no neighborhood and take people out.”
Just as Massey finished her sentence, the man pushed her aside to get to Gendron as several police officers restrained him.
A man on Twitter responded to a viral video of the attack and identified himself as Mapps’ nephew. He also said the irate man was his cousin.
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