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Buffalo Mayor Leads Movement To Heal, Support Community Members After Clinic Shooting

Mayor Teri Lachermeier says she is proud of how the community has responded, helping those most impacted by the shooting.

(CBS News)

February 11, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The mayor of Buffalo is working to provide resources to people in the community to help deal with the tragedy of the fatal shooting at the town’s health clinic on Tuesday.

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Mayor Teri Lachermeier says she is proud of how the community has responded, helping those most impacted by the shooting. She recorded a message to let residents know they are “Buffalo strong,” and that they are not alone.

Buffalo is a community that “people who come here live here, stay here, raise their kids here, their kids come back here,” said Lachermeier. It’s a city with great strength, she said, which was challenged during six minutes of horror inside the Allina clinic.

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