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Buffalo shooter’s prior threat, hospital stay under scrutiny
https://www.breitbart.com ^ | MAY 16,2022 | Staff

Posted on 05/16/2022 5:55:30 AM PDT by Red Badger

Authorities say the white 18-year-old who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket during a rampage that targeted Black people had previously made a threat at his high school

Buffalo shooter’s prior threat, hospital stay under scrutinyBy CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMOAssociated PressThe Associated PressBUFFALO, N.Y.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket made threatening comments that brought police to his high school last spring, but he was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital, officials said.

The revelation raised questions about whether his encounter with police and the mental health system was yet another missed opportunity to put a potential mass shooter under closer law enforcement scrutiny, get him help, or make sure he didn’t have access to deadly firearms.

Authorities said they were investigating the attack on predominantly Black shoppers and workers at the Tops Friendly Market as a potential federal hate crime or act of domestic terrorism. Saturday’s mass violence in Buffalo was the deadliest of a wave of fatal weekend shootings, including at a California church and a Texas flea market.

Payton Gendron, 18, traveled about 200 miles (320 kilometers) from his home in Conklin, New York, to Buffalo to commit the attack, police said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fbi; paytongendron; whatdidwrayknow
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To: ClearCase_guy

These kooks almost always are on police radar. In this case the NYS Police interviewed him after he threatened to shoot up his school, the police gave him a clean bill of health??!


21 posted on 05/16/2022 6:30:39 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

What ever happened to the Black NY subway shooter?


22 posted on 05/16/2022 6:32:11 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Houserino
breitbart making this into a white vs BLACK thing. Did they capitalize BLACK when Franke James shot up the subway?

Obama was successful dividing the races and now the media only focuses on White vs. Black. I might add, so do the Blacks. The people interviewed in Buffalo tell me that many Blacks do not like Whites.

23 posted on 05/16/2022 6:34:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

I remember hearing the FBI or some such government institution visited Adam lanza before he went on his shooting spree. Apparently it was under the guise of him being such a good hacker they wanted to give him... Kudos or something.


24 posted on 05/16/2022 6:35:30 AM PDT by kelly4c
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To: TornadoAlley3

also can we say all this anti white evil white bullsh*t that is pushed non stop creates this powder keg?


25 posted on 05/16/2022 6:38:04 AM PDT by snarkytart
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To: snarkytart
can we say all this anti white evil white bullsh*t that is pushed non stop creates this powder keg?

The media and Dems have been instigating race animosity for years now. Obama deserves much of the credit for lighting the powder keg.

26 posted on 05/16/2022 6:41:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger
Meanwhile, looks like NYS plans on trying to buy off the vics' families so nobody will ask why the state and its LE allowed that perp to run loose and have access to firearms...

New York pledges millions to support Buffalo in wake of mass shooting: Gov. Hochul

27 posted on 05/16/2022 6:49:41 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: ClearCase_guy; 1Old Pro

The shooter never made an actionable threat to shoot up a school. It’s strange to me that freedom-loving FReepers would want someone locked up for life because they made a vague threat that was not criminal in nature.


28 posted on 05/16/2022 6:53:06 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: Red Badger
This is not an isolated case. It happens again and again. And there is never any accountability for these "failures" because they aren't failures. That assumes too much about what they were trying to accomplish.

Rather, the FBI identified a potential "hate criminal" and successfully made use of him. Again.

29 posted on 05/16/2022 6:54:27 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: thefactor
The shooter never made an actionable threat to shoot up a school. It’s strange to me that freedom-loving FReepers would want someone locked up for life because they made a vague threat that was not criminal in nature.

I never said he should be locked up for life for his threat, I'd like more detail about it and whether it was a Red Flag. As for this recent shooting, I also don't want him locked up for life, I want the death penalty.

30 posted on 05/16/2022 6:59:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: brownsfan

I thought this guy was a “teenager.” Instead, he is apparently a “gunman.”

Oh, the liberals’ clever and selective use of words!


31 posted on 05/16/2022 7:02:50 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: 1Old Pro
It was a school assignment where the shooter was basically asked where they see themselves in five years. The shooter responded "murder/suicide."

Law enforcement can do nothing with that. At most a psych eval can be ordered. And yes, death penalty. But taxpayers will pay to keep this parasite alive for the next 70 years. I hope someone takes care of him in prison.

32 posted on 05/16/2022 7:06:20 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt )
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To: thefactor
It was a school assignment where the shooter was basically asked where they see themselves in five years. The shooter responded "murder/suicide." Law enforcement can do nothing with that. At most a psych eval can be ordered.

I wonder if a psych eval was ordered, that would be the proper course of action.

33 posted on 05/16/2022 7:08:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Houserino
breitbart making this into a white vs BLACK thing. Did they capitalize BLACK when Franke James shot up the subway?

I noticed that too. And I think it actually contributes to the problem instead of helps.

34 posted on 05/16/2022 7:08:56 AM PDT by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: Red Badger

Excellent question.


35 posted on 05/16/2022 7:11:31 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: Red Badger

Any reports of recreational drug use (even minor use!) with this guy?


36 posted on 05/16/2022 7:15:26 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Red Badger

Why is brietbart capitaluzing black? Trash rag I guess.


37 posted on 05/16/2022 7:17:22 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: Red Badger

Many of these High School shooters seem to been prescribed SSRI anti-depressants. I wonder what (if anything) this kid was on.


38 posted on 05/16/2022 7:18:42 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: If You Want It Fixed - Fix It

This is likely the excuse Breitbart is using...

https://apnews.com/article/archive-race-and-ethnicity-9105661462


39 posted on 05/16/2022 7:21:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Red Badger
He did not legally possess the gun...(New laws won't fix that)

He did not legally possess the body armor...(New laws won't fix that)

The courts failed to stop the known threat...(New laws won't fix that)

Big Tech failed to censor his terrorist posts...(Big Tech pretends to care about that)

40 posted on 05/16/2022 7:21:44 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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