Vice President Kamala Harris places her hand on the shoulder of her husband Douglas Emhoff as they visit to a memorial to the victims outside of the Tops on Jefferson Avenue.
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Vice President Kamala Harris arrives with a bouquet to place at a memorial outside the Tops on Jefferson Avenue where a racist gunman massacred 10 people two weeks ago.
Vice President Kamala Harris came to Buffalo Saturday intending to quietly pay respects to the late Ruth Whitfield – but ended up strongly reiterating her support for something she said could prevent mass shootings like the one that claimed Whitfield's life: an assault weapons ban.
Rep. Chris Jacobs of Orchard Park on Friday made a surprising about-face on gun control issues, becoming perhaps the first congressional Republican to call for an assault weapons ban in the wake of the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas.
"We're not going quietly into the night," Garnell Whitfield Jr. said to a packed Mt. Olive Baptist Church Saturday. "My mother deserves more than that." The service for Ruth Whitfield was the final funeral of the 10 victims of the May 14 massacre.
Rev. Al Sharpton is joined in Buffalo by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Mayor Byron Brown, attorney Ben Crump and Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes to speak about changes that need to be made to avoid another mass shooting.
Vice President Kamala Harris places her hand on the shoulder of her husband Douglas Emhoff as they visit to a memorial to the victims outside of the Tops on Jefferson Avenue.
Vice President Kamala Harris arrives with a bouquet to place at a memorial outside the Tops on Jefferson Avenue where a racist gunman massacred 10 people two weeks ago.
