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Members of the Buffalo Bills team paid tribute in the supermarket shooting last weekend.
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Members of the Buffalo Bills at the scene of Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N. Y.
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Members of the Buffalo Bills pray before taking the stage Saturday at a supermarket in Buffalo, N. Y.
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Buffalo Bills players serve food at a World Central Kitchen tent near Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
BUFFALO, N. Y. >> Buffalo resident Jamie Lash became dizzy when Buffalo Bills player Josh Thomas put his arm around his shoulder and smiled for a photo today. It’s a rare moment of tranquility in a week spent mourning the violent deaths of 10 others at the Tops supermarket where he worked.
“It means unity. It means support,” Lash said, adjusting the Bills cap that team member had put on his head.
“We see the Bills mob supporting us everywhere,” Thomas, a defensive back on the team.
He is one of dozens of players and staff from the NFL team, nhl Buffalo Sabres and the professional buffalo bandits lacrosse team who got off 4 tour buses at the scene of Saturday’s racist attack, where they laid flowers, distributed food and went to the grocery store. Shop.
The first prevents an organization from stopping at a monument on the edge of the store’s parking lot, where several players laid flowers in front of pigeon clippings, each named after a victim.
“It’s real, to go to the real site and put flowers and see the other people who have been affected,” said closed spending wing Dawson Knox. “I still can’t get used to the idea, but it’s different to be here. “
Like many in the group, Bills offensive lineman Dion Dawkins wore a blouse that read “Choose Love. “
After six years in Buffalo, “I’m from this community,” he said, calling the attack a “sad act. “
“Someone planned an attack,” Dawkins said, “the demographics of this network said ‘This is where they are at their best, let’s attack there,’ and that’s what they did,” he said. “I see it more as a terrorist attack on a background of people. “
“In the year we are now,” he said, “I wish that other people would see that their neighbor may be Indian, their neighbor may be Russian, Caucasian, Asian, they may be African. We all live together, we have to make it work You don’t have to love everyone, but you have to show your love somehow.
Behind the tables, quarterback Josh Allen and other players served hot meals of bird alfred with broccoli and distributed lettuce, radishes and others to residents.
“This week has been terrible,” said Shervon White, who lives near the store and arrived early to see the team. spirit of the region.
Christopher Boyd, 12, smiled for the week he had taken when he gathered the Bills players he loves.
“When it first happened, I felt a little unsafe in my house,” he said.
“When I’m here today and I see the Bills,” Christopher said, “I feel like they’re giving back to the community. They show love as we show them when they play on the field. It’s just one big satisfied family, a community.
The Buffalo Bills Foundation said it would donate $200,000 to the relief efforts, an amount that will be matched through the NFL Foundation, the team said on Twitter.
“It’s just about filling the void that exists in our world with love and bringing other people together,” Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott said. “When it touches one user in our community, it touches all of us. “
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