Saturday, November 5, 2016

Black church in Mississippi burned and vandalized with ‘Vote Trump’ graffiti

Late Tuesday night, the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi caught fire. When fire crews arrived to put out the blaze, they found that the words "Vote Trump" had been spray-painted on the side of the historic black church.

Officials consider the fire, which significantly damaged the church's sanctuary, to be of "suspicious" origin. During a press conference Wednesday morning, Greenville Mayor Errick D. Simmons said that “heinous, hateful, and cowardly act” is being investigated as a hate crime....
https://thinkprogress.org/mississippi-black-church-burned-vote-trump-8e0e87a063bb#.3p7qizptw


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