Biden calls for fight against racial extremism after Buffalo shooting

Any act of domestic terrorism, including "an act carried out in the name of a wholly unacceptable white nationalist ideology," is contrary to American values. This is how US President Joe Biden commented on the shooting in Buffalo, New York.

“Hate should not have a safe haven [in the US]. We must do everything possible to end domestic hate terrorism,” the American leader said in a statement.

The shooting took place on May 14 in a supermarket. Ten people died. three more were wounded. Of the 13 dead and injured, 11 are black.

The assailant, an 18-year-old white male, was detained. He was well armed, wearing a helmet and other equipment. According to BNO News, the shooter broadcast his attack on Twitter and published an extremist manifesto in which he called himself a "white supremacist, racist and anti-Semite."

Prosecutors charged him with first-degree murder, a crime punishable by life imprisonment without parole. The suspect could also be charged with terrorism, the prosecutor said.

The FBI ruled the Buffalo shooting a hate crime and an act of racial extremism. According to a CBS source, the gunman shouted racist slurs during the attack.

New York State authorities will present a package of laws to combat gun trafficking after the incident.