WGRZ is a television station in Buffalo,New York,United States,affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. The station's studios are located on Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo,and its transmitter is located on Warner Hill Road in South Wales,New York.
Ruth Hassell-Thompson of Mount Vernon,New York,is a former State Senator who represented the 36th district of New York,which includes the Bronx neighborhoods of Norwood,Bedford Park,Williamsbridge,Co-op City,Wakefield and Baychester and City of Mount Vernon.
Clementa Carlos "Clem" Pinckney was an American politician and pastor who served as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate,representing the 45th District from 2000 until his death in 2015. He was previously a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1997 through 2000.
Matthew Glen Olsen is an American prosecutor who has served as the Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division since 2021. He is the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
Patrick M. Gallivan is a member of the New York State Senate and the former Sheriff of Erie County. Gallivan's district,the 59th,comprises portions of Erie County,the entirety of Wyoming County,the northern half of Livingston County and the towns of Henrietta and Wheatland in Monroe County.
Benjamin Lloyd Crump is an American attorney who specializes in civil rights and catastrophic personal injury cases such as wrongful death lawsuits. His practice has focused on cases such as Trayvon Martin,Michael Brown,and George Floyd,people affected by the Flint water crisis,and the plaintiffs behind the 2019 Johnson &Johnson baby powder lawsuit alleging the company's talcum powder product led to ovarian cancer diagnoses. Crump is also founder of the firm Ben Crump Law of Tallahassee,Florida.
On June 17,2015,a mass shooting occurred in Charleston,South Carolina,in which nine African Americans were killed during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Among those people who were killed was the senior pastor,state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. This church is one of the oldest black churches in the United States,and it has long been a center for organizing events which are related to civil rights.
Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism is a form of terrorism in which victims "within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship" as the victims. There are many definitions of terrorism,and none of them are universally accepted. The United States Department of State defined terrorism in 2003 as "premeditated,politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents,usually intended to influence an audience." However,the U.S. government cannot charge someone with domestic terrorism because no such criminal law exists.
Robert Gary Ortt II is an American politician who is a member of the New York State Senate. Ortt represents the 62nd district,which covers Niagara and Orleans counties. First elected in 2014,Ortt is a Republican.
The Buffalo Police Department (BPD) is the second-largest city police force in the state of New York. In 2012,it had over nine hundred employees,including over seven hundred police officers.
On November 22,2018,Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.,an African-American man,was shot three times from behind and killed by Hoover police officer David Alexander on the night of Thanksgiving,at the Riverchase Galleria shopping mall in Hoover,Alabama. Police responded to a shooting at the mall where two people were shot. Another African-American man suspected in the first shooting was arrested in Georgia a week later and charged in the shooting of one of those injured. Bradford was holding a legally owned weapon when shot and was not involved in the prior shooting incident,although near the crime scene. The shooting of Bradford was immediately controversial,and was condemned by the Alabama National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as an example of racially biased policing.
Patrick B. Burke is an American politician who serves in the New York State Assembly from the 142nd district,which represents South Buffalo,the City of Lackawanna,and the towns of West Seneca and Orchard Park. Burke is a South Buffalo native.
On August 3,2019,a mass shooting occurred at a Walmart in El Paso,Texas,United States. In the terrorist attack,a far-right individual killed 23 people and injured 23 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime. The shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history,and is the deadliest mass shooting in the US to conclude with an alleged perpetrator being caught alive to face legal repercussions.
On 29 November 2019,five people were stabbed,two fatally,in Central London. The attacker,Usman Khan,had been released from prison in 2018 on licence after serving a sentence for terrorist offences.
On February 9,2021,a mass shooting and bombing occurred at a medical clinic in Buffalo,Minnesota,United States. Just before 11:00 a.m. CST,Gregory Paul Ulrich,a 67-year-old man,shot five people at Allina Health's Buffalo Crossroads facility. One victim,Lindsay Overbay,died,and three others were critically injured from gunshot wounds. All of the victims were medical clinic staff. During the attack,Ulrich discharged three improvised explosive devices,one of which failed to detonate. He surrendered to police who were dispatched to the clinic,and he was taken into custody. He admitted to authorities that he fired on people inside the clinic and set off bombs.
Ruth Bermudez Montenegro is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California since 2022. She served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2018 to 2022.
On 21 November 2021,a shooting took place in the Old City of Jerusalem. Fadi Abu Shkhaydem,a 42-year-old Palestinian from East Jerusalem killed a 26 year old Israeli,who had made aliyah from South Africa in 2019. He injured four others before being shot dead by police.
On May 14,2022,a mass shooting occurred in Buffalo,New York,United States,at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in the East Side neighborhood. Ten people,all of whom were Black,were murdered and three were injured. The shooter,identified as 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron,livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch,but the livestream was shut down by the service in under two minutes. Gendron was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder. He formally entered a plea of "not guilty" on May 19,2022. On November 28,2022,Gendron pleaded guilty to all state charges in the shooting,including murder,terrorism,and hate crimes.
The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act was a proposed law that would have created domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),the Department of Justice (DOJ),and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
