- A gunman fatally shot 10 people at a Buffalo, New York supermarket on Saturday.
- Authorities found a racist manifesto and consider the attack motivated by racism.
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"America is a great country. Our freedom is so important to us, but that freedom also carries public safety with it, and we have to balance those," Pelosi said during an interview with $4
On Saturday, $4 on customers and employees at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
Officials said the suspected gunman, Payton Gendron, drove more than three hours to the grocery store that's in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
Police believe the shooting was motivated by racism and are investigating a racist manifesto that offers insight into Gendron's motives.
Pelosi on Sunday said everyone has to stay vigilant about threats.
"There has to be vigilance," Pelosi $4. "People have to alert other authorities if they think that someone is on a path to domestic terrorism, to violence of any kind."
Earlier on Sunday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called on$4 like those espoused by the alleged gunman.
"This is spreading like wildfire," Hochul told CNN's "State of the Union" host Dana Bash.
John Cohen, a former head of counterterrorism at DHS, also told $4 that the gunman's anger was fueled by extremist content found online and there needs to be more to limit its spread.
"This is the threat," he said. "Individuals who are spending a lot of time online, they're viewing content that's being placed there by foreign intelligence services, foreign terrorist organizations, domestic violence extremist thought leaders. They use that content as a way to validate their use of violence and they're going out and they're committing mass murder."