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Memorial to those murdered in Buffalo, May 2022
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After the racially motivated killing of ten people in the US city of Buffalo, the perpetrator has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Judge Susan Eagan announced this after emotional statements from the bereaved, as US media reported unanimously.
According to the CNN TV channel, the 19-year-old perpetrator had previously cried in the hall and apologized: “I shot and killed people because they were black.
Looking back now, I can't believe I actually did that," the man said. "I believed what I read online - and acted out of hate." He didn't want anyone to be inspired by his crime let
tumult in the hall
Previously, the convict had apparently escaped an attack in the courtroom.
TV pictures showed how a man with a gray sweater tried to get to him.
Security personnel stood in his way, and the accused was taken out of the room to be on the safe side.
After a short break, the hearing continued.
The white shooter pleaded guilty to domestic terrorism and murder as hate crimes in November in upstate New York.
The man, heavily armed, shot himself in front of and inside a supermarket in Buffalo in mid-May.
In addition to ten fatalities, there were at least three injured, eleven of the 13 victims were black.
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