NBC Reporter Skewered for Saying Racist Buffalo Mass Shooting Was Rooted in Killer’s Toothache
Twitter thread on the matter Friday, where he drew a correlation between suspected killer Payton Gendron’s attack that killed 10 people grocery shopping in a Black community and a dentist’s inability to fix his tooth. Collins said he “blamed the Jews” instead of insurance problems and carried out the massacre “because he thought he would finally get help for his tooth from the healthcare in prison.”It didn’t take long for Collins’ thread to elicit outrage and corrections from thousands of people on social media.