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Cuomo weighs in on Buffalo mart ‘lynchings’

By SAM RASKIN sraskin@nypost.com

Disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo told congregants Sunday he was “sickened” by the racist mass shooting and compared it to “lynchings,” as he made a case for bolstering federal gun control laws in his first public appearance in two months.

During an 11-minute speech at Buffalo’s True Bethel Baptist Church, the scandal-scarred former chief executive compared the massacre to the Klu Klux Klan’s extrajudicial killings.

“I was sickened by what happened here in Buffalo,” he said less than two miles from the supermarket where 10 people were killed and three others were injured, allegedly by avowed white supremacist teenager Payton Gendron.

“It was so shocking, it was so sad, it was so disgusting what happened here in Buffalo,” he added.

“My condolences to the families of the deceased, the wounded, and I give my condolences to every black family in Buffalo, because every black family was attacked and every black family is a victim.”

Gendron, 18, who posted a white supremacist manifesto online, has been charged with opening fire last week at Tops Friendly Market after performing reconnaissance at the grocery store before rampage.

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