NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins is under fire for what some on Twitter are calling an insensitive post about the Buffalo super market massacre.
According to Mediate, Collins sent a lengthy post out claiming the Buffalo shooter had a toothache. Collins was referencing the shooter’s Discord page, a social platform that enables users to communicate using voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media, and files in private chats or as part of communities called “servers.”
“The Buffalo shooter apparently tried to get his bad tooth treated. He went to the dentist, and whatever the dentist tried didn’t fix it,” Collins said. “He didn’t, or couldn’t, go anywhere else. He alluded to insurance problems. But instead of blaming insurance or himself, he blamed the Jews.”
MSNBC analyst Brittany Packnett responded to Collins’ tweet, “The Black people he murdered lived in a food desert. Food apartheid is but one type of “institutional decay” that Black folks live with disproportionately& daily and yet WHITE MEN are the largest domestic terror threat. You’ve lost the point entirely, all while we grieve.“
Payton Gendron of Conklin, New York, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 10 people last week.
