Black man made fake threat against black people in Buffalo to see if racists would 'agree with him': Report



Federal agents have arrested a black man in Buffalo, New York, for making a false threat against black people to see whether racists on social media would support him.

According to WIVB-TV in Buffalo, Rolik Walker, 24, of Buffalo, was arrested for a tweet he supposedly published on May 16 from an anonymous account. In the tweet, he reportedly threatened that he and his "associates" would be "targeting" Buffalo-area grocery stores and that they were "only looking to kill blacks."

Walker, who is black, allegedly issued the tweet under the Twitter handle @ConklinHero just two days after white man Payton Gendron, 18, from Conklin, New York, allegedly shot and killed 10 black people and injured three others at a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store in Buffalo. The violent crime has been deemed a "racially motivated hate crime."

An FBI affidavit claims that Walker "stated that the purpose of the post was to see what everyone would say and if anyone would agree with him.”

Court filings state that Walker attempted to obscure the origin of the @ConklinHero account by using an app that masks IP addresses.

Prosecutors also claim that Walker told law enforcement that he created a second anonymous Twitter account “in an effort to rectify the earlier post.” In the second post, Walker supposedly replaced "only looking to kill blacks" with "ants, spiders and things of that nature." Police say they did recover from his cellphone a screenshot of a post from the second account that claims he didn't mean any harm.

On Thursday, U.S Attorney Trini E. Ross announced that Walker had been arrested and charged with making an interstate threat. The charge carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Walker appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael J. Roemer on Thursday and was given a conditional release. He has been assigned an attorney.

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New York enacts sweeping new gun ownership restrictions



New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a sweeping package of gun control bills into law Monday, calling gun violence "a disease that is tearing our nation apart."

The state legislature passed and Hochul signed into law 10 bills that will implement new restrictions on gun ownership, including raising the age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle in New York from 18 to 21 years old. Democratic lawmakers claim the new gun control measures will close "loopholes" in existing laws that were exposed by the deadly mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas last month.

In addition to raising the age to purchase a rifle, lawmakers banned the sale of bulletproof armor for anyone not in law enforcement, strengthened the state's red flag law to take guns away from mentally unstable people, and introduced new requirements for social media companies to monitor and report "hateful conduct" on their platforms.

"Gun violence is an epidemic that is tearing our country apart. Thoughts and prayers won't fix this, but taking strong action will," Hochul said in a statement.

"I am proud to sign a comprehensive bill package that prohibits the sale of semiautomatic weapons to people under 21, bans body armor sales outside of people in select professions, closes critical gun law loopholes and strengthens our Red Flag Law to keep guns away from dangerous people—new measures that I believe will save lives," she added.

\u201cGun violence is a disease that is plaguing our country.\u00a0\n\nIn New York, we act boldly and we lead.\n\nThank you to @AndreaSCousins, @CarlHeastie, and all the advocates for their work to quickly pass this transformative package of gun legislation that will protect all New Yorkers.\u201d
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@Governor Kathy Hochul) 1654565817

Several of the new laws are specific responses to the deadly mass shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, where an 18-year-old gunman with racist motivations allegedly shot and killed 10 black people and wounded three others.

The firearms used in the deadly shooting were purchased legally. Now the law prohibits an 18-year-old from purchasing a rifle. "No 18-year-old can walk in on their birthday and walk out with an AR-15," Hochul told reporters Monday. "Those days are over."

Under the strengthened red flag law, law enforcement is now required to seek an order from a judge to seize the weapons of anyone they believe may pose a threat to themselves or others. The alleged shooter threatened to commit a murder-suicide at his high school in 2021, but no one sought an extreme risk protection order to remove his access to firearms under existing law at the time.

Hochul praised state lawmakers for working to pass these new gun restrictions and urged Congress "to follow our lead and take immediate action to pass meaningful gun violence prevention measures."

There are several gun control bills under consideration in Congress but most of the measures preferred by anti-gun activists do not have enough support to pass. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators led by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) are trying to reach a compromise on a federal bill that would incentivize state governments to adopt red flag laws similar to ones in New York and Florida. Any compromise will need 10 Republicans to sign on to overcome a filibuster with 60 votes.

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Authorities investigating whether retired federal agent, 5 others knew about Buffalo shooter's plans beforehand



Law enforcement officials in Buffalo, New York, are reportedly investigating whether a retired federal agent, along with at least five other individuals, knew about Payton Gendron's plans to murder black people at a Tops supermarket earlier this month approximately 30 minutes before they were carried out.

Authorities believe the six individuals were part of a group that regularly communicated with Gendron in an online chat room on Discord where racist hatred was discussed, the Buffalo News reported, citing two officials with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The officials reportedly told the outlet that Gendron invited the individuals in question — including the retired agent, who is believed to be from Texas — to read over the details of his mass shooting plans, which included the target location.

On Saturday, May 14, at around 2:30 p.m., Gendron ambushed a Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly black area of Buffalo, opening fire on innocent bystanders both inside and outside the store and killing 10 before he was apprehended.

The New York Times first reported on May 17 that Gendron had made his plans available for viewing by invite about 30 minutes before the massacre. And a couple days later, the Washington Post reported that 15 users had accepted the invite.

The Buffalo News said it could not verify whether or not the retired agent was one of the individuals who accepted the invitation.

"These were like-minded people who used this chat group to talk about their shared interests in racial hatred, replacement theory, and hatred of anyone who is Jewish, a person of color or not of European ancestry," one of the two law enforcement officials reportedly told the paper.

That official added: "What is especially upsetting is that these six people received advanced notice of the Buffalo shooting, about 30 minutes before it happened. [Yet] the FBI has verified that none of these people called law enforcement to warn them about the shooting. The FBI database shows no advance tips from anyone that this shooting was about to happen."

FBI agents are now reportedly in the process of tracking down the six individuals to interview them and determine if they should be charged as accomplices.

The retired agent in question was not identified by name, and the agency he previously worked for was not disclosed. But federal agents are looking into the agent's relationship to Gendron and investigating whether the agent provided information to the suspect before he carried out his attack.