Biden travels to Buffalo to meet with families of victims of deadly shooting
CBSN
Washington — President Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden are visiting Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday to pay respects to the 10 people who were killed in a mass shooting at a supermarket and offer condolences to the families of the victims of the racially motivated massacre.
Mr. Biden will be joined on the trip to Buffalo by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democratic senators from New York. He is also poised to deliver remarks, during which he will "call this despicable act for what it is: terrorism motivated by a hateful and perverse ideology that tears at the soul of our nation," according to a White House official.
The president is also expected to use his speech to urge Americans "to give hate no safe harbor, and to reject the lies of racial animus that radicalize, divide us, and led to the act of racist violence we saw on Saturday that took the lives of 10 of our countrymen," the official previewed.
