Samuel L. Radford III of the Community Action Organization and We the Parents speaks Thursday before the start of a healing circle at the Buffalo Urban League hosted by the Buffalo Equity Coalition.
A meeting originally scheduled to discuss action plans for education equality in Buffalo on Thursday was recast in light of Saturday’s white supremacist mass shooting at the Tops Markets on Jefferson Avenue.
“It’s a vibrant part of this neighborhood and this community so we’re trying to rebuild,” said one business owner on Jefferson Avenue, near the Tops Friendly Market where policy say a gunman shot and killed 10 people – all Black – and wounded three others Saturday afternoon.
Those who live in the neighborhood that adjoins Tops have been trying to fathom why a gunman would target them. But in interviews, they talked as much about pride in their neighborhood than the pain they are enduring.
Evangelist Charita Mariner from Zion Church in Fredericksburg, Va., prays over a grieving couple outside Tops. On right is Rev. Timothy Newkirk of GYC Ministries.
Samuel L. Radford III of the Community Action Organization and We the Parents speaks Thursday before the start of a healing circle at the Buffalo Urban League hosted by the Buffalo Equity Coalition.
