Buffalo grocery mass shooter gets life in prison during tense sentencing hearing for racist attack

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Source: NBC News

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 19-year-old white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery last year was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole during an emotional hearing that was briefly interrupted after a man charged toward him.

The dramatic moment came as the sister of victim Katherine Massey addressed the shooter, Payton Gendron, ahead of his sentencing for the May 14 racist massacre at Tops Friendly Markets.

“You don’t know a damn thing about Black people. We’re human. We like our kids to go to good schools. We love our kids. We never go to no neighborhoods to take people out,” Barbara Massey told the gunman.

As she continued to address the shooter, a man in a gray jogging suit ran toward Gendron, who was rushed out of the courtroom. Authorities surrounded the unidentified man, leading to a short break.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-rushes-buffalo-grocery-mass-shooter-emotional-sentencing-hearing-r-rcna70250

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The 19-year-old white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo grocery last year was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole during an emotional hearing that was briefly interrupted after a man charged toward him.

The dramatic moment came as the sister of victim Katherine Massey addressed the shooter, Payton Gendron, ahead of his sentencing for the May 14 racist massacre at Tops Friendly Markets.

“You killed my sister. I will hurt you so bad. I’m not gonna be nice. Kat was my sister. I want to personally choke you out,” Barbara Massey told the gunman.

“You don’t know a damn thing about Black people. We’re human. We like our kids to go to good schools. We love our kids. We never go to no neighborhoods to take people out,” she added.

[twodogsbarking]

1. Ten lives lost. So many others shattered. All are victims, some just have to continue to suffer.

[The Grand Illuminist]

2. Should've gotten death

nt

[peppertree]

3. A fate worse than death

To know you'll be behind bars, for the rest of your natural life? And being 19?

He'll pray he can end up like Dahmer. In fact - like Dahmer - I'm sure he'll try to provoke his jail mates into killing him.

[The Grand Illuminist]

6. It all depends where they put him.

I never trusted this prison system.

[peppertree]

12. Good point.

Though being in New York, I'm not as worried about that as I'd be in South Carolina.

No outings to the Burger King (I hope!).

[ZonkerHarris]

7. He will not have to provoke anyone. He's a racist killer. If he hits gen pop he will be killed

I'm going to predict 10 stab wounds
one for each victim.

[peppertree]

11. Sad, but true.

I don't wish it on anyone - but when someone's crossed the line that far, it's only inevitable.

To say nothing of the afterlife...

[ZonkerHarris]

13. they will have to keep that doughboy in isolation for the rest of his life. which is cool too

He's going into prison with a target and bounty on his head.
That's how prison works for guys like that.
Also child molesters.

[peppertree]

20. +1

He brought it on himself.

Those poor people.

[secondwind]

9. I agree!

[peppertree]

14. Thanks.

The worst part is, that we can bet this wasn't the last such incident.

Another one of Rush Lumpball's legacies.

[PatSeg]

34. I agree

No one can definitively characterize death, so we don't know if that is a punishment or a reward or an escape from responsibility. We pretty much know what life in prison will be. As you said, he is only 19 and he could have a very long time to live in the hell we call prison.

[peppertree]

39. Thanks - and may it be an example any others out there like him

Because thanks to Hate Radio, Farce News, and much of our modern GOP, there many more who no doubt are mulling the very same crime.

They're just as guilty as young Mr. Gendron there.

[PatSeg]

45. We can always hope

[peppertree]

47. Sadly, though, I doubt it'll be the last

Especially as the '24 campaign heats up.

All those Repug candidates stirring the white grievance hornet's nest - as some no doubt will - is bound to have repercussions.

[NullTuples]

4. That's the Republican stance, too.

Republicans executed more people during the Trump administration than any presidential administration in more than 120 years.

They're very "eye for an eye" Old Testament Biblical that way.

From what I've read, President Biden takes his New Testament faith seriously and for him, that means no death penalty.

They're all Christians of course; just different flavors, with different goals for themselves and the people whose lives they can affect.

[The Mouth]

5. Agree.

Too good for him, but cathartic for the families of the victims.

Supermax or such, and never seeing another human for the rest of their life should be the standard. I don't believe there is such a thing as too 'cruel and unusual' for vermin like this.

[groundloop]

8. Nope, the death penalty is wrong, period, no exceptions.

This sick motherfucker will spend the rest of his days behind bars, unable to inflict any more harm. As it should be.

[The Grand Illuminist]

24. Ofttimes there are no other choices.

No matter how one rationalizes against it.

[Happy Hoosier]

19. A general rule...

... I think giving the state the authority to kill people in a judicial process is going to do far more harm than good.

That doesn't mean this man deserve it. He most certainly does.

[PatSeg]

35. Yes, capital punishment

is basically state-sanctioned murder. I don't think it is healthy for any society or for those involved in the execution. If killing is wrong, it is wrong - there are always other options.

[The Grand Illuminist]

40. And if those options run out

then what?

[PatSeg]

46. I can't imagine any scenario

where other options would run out. There have been societies throughout history who have managed to maintain order without resorting to killing the guilty among them, as there are today. If we are to evolve as humans, we have to look for better options.

Meanwhile, I don't know with any certainty what happens to us when we die, so I don't know what we are doing to a person when we execute them. Death just seems like the easy way out.

[sarisataka]

23. Maybe he can be

The first televised execution by firing squad. I seem to recall some discussion about someone proposing similar yesterday...

[ShazzieB]

37. Well, that ship has sailed, as the saying goes.

He's already been sentenced (to life without parole). And New York hasn't had the death penalty in years (it's technically still on the books, but abolished fot all practical purpises.*)

I could opine further about my personal opposition on the death penalty, and why I don't find "jokes" about it remotely funny, but I will leave that conversation for another time.

*For more details on which states still have the death penalty and which have abolished it, see this link: https://deathpenalty.procon.org/states-with-the-death-penalty-and-states-with-death-penalty-bans/

[sarisataka]

38. I am with you

And opposed to the DP 100%

We do have a lot of people who will say they are opposed to the DP. Except...

In this case I just wanted to point out a bedfellow of those who favor executions.

[clementine613]

31. He was convicted and sentenced on state charges in NY

and NY does not have a death penalty. It was never an option.

He does face federal charges with the possibility of death, but I doubt that that's going to happen. Since he's going to be in prison for the rest of his life, he'll probably just plead guilty to the federal charges in exchange for a life sentence.

[jmowreader]

36. This was his state hearing, and NY State doesn't have the death penalty

He’s still facing federal charges. He could very well wind up in the Florence Supermax prison, which is a fate much worse than death.

[llashram]

10. +++

hopefully, this prisoner, in prison, is put in gen pop... every day

[ZonkerHarris]

16. it would only happen once. He was tough with a gun against unarmed people. It will be fun for him

to be a out of shape doughboy trapped with much more dangerous people than him, none of them needing a gun to do their worst.

He will live in extreme fear for the rest of his short life before ultimately bleeding out in his cell of a hallway.

I wonder if, as the life drains from his eyes, he will regret being filled with so much racist hate.
Fuck him

.

[Chainfire]

15. While I do not condone any violence, or I support government sanctioned killing,

This fellow is liable to learn an alternative meaning of justice while serving his term. . A lot of his fellow prisoners and guards will not be willing to forgive the man's personal mini genocide. He is in for a life of fear and physical danger. He will only be safe from harm if he is in solitary confinement. Life in prison is a long damn time when you are 20 years old.

He made his bed, and he can look for sympathy in the dictionary.

[PatrickforB]

17. Payton will have the next sixty or seventy years to think about what he did

while he sits in a 70 sq foot cage for the rest of his life.

[IbogaProject]

18. So true

"We never go to no neighborhoods to take people out,”

[barbtries]

21. watching the hearing.

https://www.youtube.com/live/-T3-ob0Wfbk?feature=share

He's sitting there completely unmoved. I'm sitting here crying over this senseless waste of life. I am opposed to the death penalty but have to say I see nothing whatsoever redeemable in this very young white supremacist mass murderer.

Many of the statements are really good. You get a sense of loss that is so enormous it cannot be quantified or satisfactorily explained. Also you get to know the innocent victims a little bit and the love and relationships they were stolen away from.

[pirsquared]

30. existing being not dead in prison...

He will
never see a sunset; never have a love affair and delight in the smile of a girlfriend; never have sex with a woman; never smell spring flowers; never awaken to a pretty snowfall; never get to have a peanut butter snack before bed; never experience the thrill of a roller coaster; never swim in the waves at a seashore; never have a child; never hold a kitten or puppy; never visit the wonders at a national park; never order a tasty meal from a menu; never decorate a Winter Solstice tree; never see the stars on a dark night sky--or even the moon; never own a house and have the pleasure of fixing a faucet; or planting a garden; or smelling freshcut grass; never have anything to look forward to...

He is too young and too dumb to even know what he will miss.

[CaptainTruth]

33. Wow... that is incredibly well said. It reminds me...

...of all the wonderful things we have to enjoy in life!

[pirsquared]

43. "All forms of sex are forbidden", said the Warden.

I was amazed/dismayed that masturbation is forbidden in prison. When Whitey Bulger was in jail before he was murdered, the guards "caught" him masturbating. I do not want to ask.

"All forms of sex are forbidden", said the Warden.

Bulger was about 80 yrs then, likely prohibited from Viagra, and sending him to solitary does not appear sensible.

I do wonder what the Warden does about sexy dreams.

[ShazzieB]

41. Beautifully stated.

The closest he will ever come to the smile of a girlfriend will be receiving love letters from deluded female "fans." *gag* (Serial murderers always have a fan club of sorts, and I imagine the same is true of mass shooters, especially if the guy is halfway decent looking.)

He'll probably enjoy those letters, but he'll never know the joy of a flesh and blood relationship with a real live human that he loves and who loves him in return. That is just one of the many, many things to which he gave up the right when he decided to shoot and kill innocent people.

[Aristus]

22. For all the speculation that he will be attacked and killed on the inside,

there's little doubt in my mind that the prison's white supremacist contingent is going to rally around him and protect him. He'll be a hero to them. There will be no righteous retribution-kill here.

[dalton99a]

26. +1. He will be a revered figure in prison.

[dalton99a]

25. POS needs to be dead.

[ShazzieB]

42. Maybe he does, but I don't think it's the government's job to make that happen.

Are there are people who do things that they "deserve" to die for? Of course. (I could make a list, and it would not be a short one, believe me.) I realize that many feel that means the government has a right to execute those people, but I honestly believe that the death penalty causes a lot more harm than good, for everyone involved and for society as a whole.

The momentary satisfaction some may feel when an individual like John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy is executed is not worth the profound injustice of executing even one falsely convicted person. (And that's just one of many reasons why I am opposed to it.)

[sarisataka]

27. It would take minimal effort

To find threads on the virtues on European prison systems and their quarters such as this in Norway



But then there are cases like this where we seem content to have a prison system that is made of hellholes full of rape and murder. We want some criminals to get the "justice" we believe they deserve.

We can't have it both ways.

[Marthe48]

28. If only justice was meted swiftly

in every case

[Warpy]

29. He'll be a hero to the Aryan Brotherhood and other racist groups in prison

but he's still going to have a long, long time to think about what he could have had if he hadn't listened to their bullshit.

Or that's who he'll be for the rest of his life.

His choice.

He won't be able to do it again.

[CaptainTruth]

32. Scum. Just scum.

[republianmushroom]

44. wonder if this will play out like Sirhan Sirhan Justice has

Death penalty, by jury, life in prison, by court was attempted to be paroled this year by parole board, only stopped by Newson.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

48. Good