Local leaders call on Mayor Byron Brown to commit to fixing concerns that have been amplified by the killing of 10 Black people at a Tops supermarket.
The national media has packed up and moved on to the next mass shooting in America. But residents on the eastside of Buffalo, where 85 percent of the population is Black, are still grieving — while also“This isn’t one of those situations where we can just go on with our daily lives,” said Jillian Hanesworth, Buffalo’s first poet laureate and a social justice activist working for the organization Open Buffalo.
The targeted attack took place at what has been the sole grocery store in Buffalo’s Black neighborhood for nearly 20 years. That dubious distinction aside, the store became the center of the neighborhood, a gathering spot, amplifying the impact of the slaughter. Hanesworth said she has been on the ground since the shooting, working in various capacities to help heal and fill the gaps that have been created by the shooting. “People here are fed up,” she said.
That’s where Brown comes in, community leaders say. He has been Buffalo’s mayor for 16 years, “and we’re in the condition we’re in under his tenure,” Hanesworth said. “That speaks volumes.” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown leaves the funeral of Aaron Salter Jr. at The Chapel at Crosspoint on May 25, 2022 in Buffalo, New York.He cited several accomplishments during his tenure, including the building of the library on Jefferson and a local police precinct, hiring “the most diverse staff in the city’s history,” demolishing thousands of vacant buildings that invited crime and drugs, and raising the annual budget on youth employment.“It should be all hands on deck,” he said.
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