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Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, speaking, stands with relatives of the victims of the May 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, along with their lawyers. All took part in a press conference in Buffalo on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Relatives of the victims of last year's mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market announced Wednesday they are suing the social media sites, weapons retailers and others who they say “loaded the gun” that convicted assailant Payton Gendron in the attack fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online. Photo credit: Libby March, The Buffalo News via The Associated Press

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Tops Friendly Markets on Buffalo's East Side was the scene of a racially motived mass shooting on May 14th, 2022. Photo credit: Bagumba

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People gather around a memorial for the victims of the Buffalo supermarket shooting outside the Tops Friendly Market on Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Tops was encouraging people to join its stores in a moment of silence to honor the shooting victims Saturday at 2:30 p.m., the approximate time of the attack a week earlier. Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown also called for 123 seconds of silence from 2:28 p.m. to 2:31 p.m., followed by the ringing of church bells 13 times throughout the city to honor the 10 people killed and three wounded. Photo credit: Joshua Bessex, The Associated Press

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The Landon Street Unity Mural Project on Buffalo's East Side, across the street from the Tops Friendly Market where a white supremacist fatally shot 10 Black people last year, is a work in progress. Photo credit: Johnfrederick Daniels

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Mark Talley, son of Tops shooting victim Geraldine Talley, poses on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Photo credit: Joshua Bessex, The Associated Press

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Police walk outside the Tops grocery store on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. Payton Gendron was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, for killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket in an attack fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online. Photo credit: Joshua Bessex, The Associated Press

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