Attorneys for Payton Gendron, the white gunman who murdered 10 Black people at a Buffalo Tops supermarket in 2022, are now arguing that his federal charges should be dismissed because the grand jury that indicted him was not “diverse enough.”

According to ABC News, Gendron’s lawyers say in their motion that Black and Hispanic people, along with men, are “systemically and significantly underrepresented” on jury lists in the Buffalo area. They argue that this violates his constitutional right to a grand jury drawn from a fair cross-section of the community.

As previously reported, Gendron carried out a racist, targeted attack on a Tops supermarket located in a predominantly Black neighborhood. ABC News states that victims ranged in age from 32 to 86 years old, and three others were wounded

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