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Police secure an area around a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket where 10 people were killed in a shooting on May 14, 2022. Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP, File hide caption
A young bison calf with its herd at Bull Hollow, Okla., on Sept. 27, 2022. American bison, or buffalo, have bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the 1800s. Many tribes are participating in their restoration. Audrey Jackson/AP hide caption
The Buffalo All-Star Extreme cheer team grapples with the repercussions from a mass shooting at a nearby grocery store. Kristen Uroda for NPR hide caption
How a Black cheer squad in Buffalo deals with the racist massacre blocks away
People hug outside the scene after a shooting at a supermarket on May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Joshua Bessex/AP hide caption
One of the 35 Denver Mountain Park bison stands in a corral as it waits to be transferred to representatives of four Native American tribes and one memorial council so they can reintroduce the animals to tribal lands March 15, 2023, near Golden, Colo. Five of the bison went to the Yuchi Tribe of Oklahoma. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption
Some of the 35 Denver Mountain Park bison wait in a corral to be transferred to representatives of four Native American tribes and one memorial council as they reintroduce the animals to tribal lands on Wednesday. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption
Good Samaritans help push out a car in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday. John Normile/Getty Images hide caption
Buffalo, N.Y., residents dig out after a historic and catastrophic blizzard. Jeffrey T. Barnes/AP hide caption
National Grid workers respond to a downed utility pole in Buffalo, N.Y., on Tuesday. The monster storm that killed dozens in the United States over the Christmas weekend continued to inflict misery on New York state and air travelers nationwide. Joed Viera/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A lone pedestrian in snow shoes makes his way across Colonial Circle as St. John's Grace Episcopal Church rises above the blowing snow amid blizzard conditions in Buffalo, N.Y. on Saturday. Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP hide caption
Tom Dee uses a shovel to dig out after an intense lake effect snowstorm impacted the area on Friday in Hamburg, N.Y. John Normile/Getty Images hide caption
Heavy equipment operator Don Beitz walks around a giant snow thrower while preparing for the impending snowstorm that is expected to dump several feet of snow on the area until Friday evening at the New York State Thruway's Walden Garage in Cheektowaga, N.Y. on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. Derek Gee/AP hide caption
Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced a new initiative to combat unlawful acts of hate in the Western District of New York. Here, a memorial for the supermarket shooting victims is set up outside the Tops Friendly Market on Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. Joshua Bessex/AP hide caption
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that she is pledging $10 million to establish new teams in every county and in New York City dedicated primarily to combat domestic terrorism. Here, Hochul holds up signed legislation as she is surrounded by lawmakers during a bill signing ceremony at the Northeast Bronx YMCA on June 6, 2022 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
A Washington state man has been arrested after allegedly calling a Buffalo, N.Y., grocery store and threatening to kill the Black people inside. This nearby Tops Grocery store in Buffalo was the scene of a deadly mass shooting in May. Usman Khan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People gather near the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y., on Thursday during a remembrance ceremony for victims of the May shooting there. Joshua Bessex/AP hide caption
Attorney General Merrick Garland. visits the Tops Friendly Market grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the site of a May mass shooting in which 10 Black people were killed. Carolyn Thompson/AP hide caption
Community members gather May 21 to support each other near the Tops market that was targeted in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. Mustafa Hussain/Getty Images hide caption
Flowers are left at a makeshift memorial outside of the Tops market on May 15 in Buffalo, N.Y. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Pastor Andre Kamoche, left, and Greg Jackson, with Rehoboth House of Prayer, help unload a truck of fresh produce to be given out to people affected by the Tops closure on Tuesday in Buffalo, N.Y. Joshua Bessex/AP hide caption
Jillian Hanesworth, the poet laureate of Buffalo. Alia Fredrick/Jillian Hanesworth hide caption
Al Noor mosque shooting survivor Temel Atacocugu points to the scar of a bullet wound in his arm during an interview at his home, Feb. 25, 2020, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Mark Baker/AP hide caption
A photo of Roberta Drury, 32, who was killed in Saturday's shooting at a Tops supermarket in Buffalo. Christopher Moyer hide caption