A Washington state man has been arrested and charged after he allegedly called a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and threatened to kill Black people there and at a nearby store in the area, according to authorities.
Joey David George, 37, was arrested and charged with two counts of interstate threats after police say he made repeated calls to a Tops supermarket store on July 19 and 20, asking how many Black people were in the store.
In a federal criminal complaint obtained by NPR, George — who used the pseudonym “Peter”— said he would “make the news if he shot and killed all of the Black people, including all of the women, children and babies.”
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