'I would rather for him to just stay behind bars for the rest of his life. If you kill him, he becomes a martyr.'
, the number of reported hate crimes against Blacks in America in 2020 was 2,871, up from 1,972 in 2019.
He added, "He's certainly going to get whatever he gets. I don't care if he gets the death penalty or not. I don't really care about him. I'm not going to spend my time talking about him or focusing on him. The truth of the matter is that I'm focused on the things that empowered him and the reason he became who he was. The systems and the people that continue to be in power to this day that continue to make victims of us all.
Tops supermarket worker Fragrance Harris Stanfield speaks of surviving the May 14, 2022, massacre at the grocery store in the East Side neighborhood of Buffalo, New York.Harris Stanfield said she was thankful that federal prosecutors listened to her when she voiced her concern that initially no charges were filed on behalf of victims who were not killed or injured. She said that when she saw the first charges filed against the suspect, she was "grieved again.
A makeshift memorial still stands on Aug. 24, 2022, outside the Tops supermarket in the East Side neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, more than three months after a gunman killed 10 Black people and wounded three other victims at the store on May 14, 2022."He's just too stupid and ignorant to know it. His whole problem, if you read his manifesto, he was ostracized and picked on his whole life, he felt," Whitfield said. "It wasn't by Black people.