Law enforcement should be prepared for racially-motivated violence inspired by the writings of the Buffalo supermarket shooter, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and National Counterterrorism Center warned in a memo circulated on Wednesday.
The authorities warned that potential mass shooters may be motivated to commit “copycat” massacres if they come across the manifesto and diary of Payton Gendron, the 19-year-old gunman who killed ten people and wounded three at a Tops Supermarket in a black neighborhood of Buffalo, New York in what he claimed in his writings was an effort to kill as many black people as possible.