'They went to do their shopping and they had no idea what's going to happen,' he said. They have to learn to talk with people around them, too.'Ītacocugu said he was heartbroken for the families of the Buffalo victims and wished governments around the world would do more to stop extremism. People, including the extremists, should see that violence does not fix anything,' he said. But if anything, the opposite happened as Muslims and non-Muslims embraced each other in a shared and enduring grief.Ītacocugu said the news about the shooting in Buffalo, New York, and its connections to the Christchurch massacre was scary, triggering flashbacks for him. One of the stated aims of the Christchurch gunman was to sow discord between racial and ethnic groups, eventually forcing nonwhite people to leave.
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