this tops was our food source, our source to healthy foods. And now it's been taken from us. That's how we know this was *** hate crime. Not only did he target black folks, he targeted our ability to get healthy foods. The east side of buffalo is considered *** food desert. *** food desert is *** place where there is *** lack of access to quality nutritious foods. All of you have access to would be the corner store and all of the corner stores. They don't have foods that have any type of nutritional value. The community organized and worked to get that tops. Mm hmm. Yeah. *** lot of us called the east side of buffalo the historically excluded part of the city and they have mhm. Mm hmm. You can notice the distance that we have to travel. This is what the, what the neighbors have to do. Why 2, 3, 4 busses just to get to the supermarket. So you see how important that supermarket is on jefferson. Different parts of the city received resources different. So just because your community has parks and splash pads and all the grass is fine and the streets are aren't bumpy and the sidewalks aren't cracked up. That doesn't mean that everybody is getting that same package of resources. I stayed in the tops all day every day. Sometimes I go there 3, 4 times today. It's not just *** shopping center. It's not just *** grocery store that tops is actually *** community center. It's where we go to congregate is where we go to talk because where we go to buy bread and stay for 15, 20 minutes because if you're just going for *** loaf of bread, you're going to find four or five people, you know, you're gonna have *** couple conversations before you leave. We have this one place we have tops, we have our grocery store and one of my biggest fears is that when it reopens, its not gonna feel like ours anymore. And we fought so long for something to feel like ours and black communities across the country have been fighting so long just to feel like something belongs to us. Like we can go shopping, we can go to church, we can go to school, we can go to the movies and that's just continuously being taken from us. We were robbed, someone had the unmitigated goal, the audacity to come to our community, our home and to rob us of our loved ones and then to rob us of our only grocery store.