Grady Lewis Buffalo Witness who talked to Shooter for 1.5 hours

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Listen to Grady Lewis's in depth interview on the Gist of Freedom. Grady bought a drink for the mass shooter, in the Buffalo area shooting, one day before the allegedl gunman from Conklin, NY opened fire and live streamed the shooting of ten Black People at the supermarket in a predominantly black neighborhood. ******* A Saint who cared for people in the community was one of the victims of the Buffalo mass shooting. Pearly Young, 77, ran a food pantry in the Central Park neighborhood for 25 years, feeding people every Saturday. Young was killed Saturday while shopping for groceries. She loved singing and dancing. ****** New Zealand took 3 days to ban assault rifles after the mass shooting that inspired the Buffalo shooter. ******* Lewis said he and the shooter discussed "theories" like Time Machines, Critical Race Theory (CRT) and black holes just hours before the alleged shooter opened fire in the parking lot, which left 10 people dead and three wounded. “I’m wondering, could I have talked to him and said, ‘Hey, we’re all one," Lewis told ABC News. He came back here to the same spot where I bought him something to drink and shot people that looked like me and would’ve shot me if I was standing near.” ******* In 1835, to fight back against the onslaught of oppression, Black abolitionist and businessman David Ruggles helped to found the The New York Community of Vigilance (NYCV), a multi-racial organization that would defend Black New Yorkers from predatory whites. Jamila Shabazz Brathwaite authored “The Black Vigilance Movement in Nineteenth Century New York City,”