Mississippi Church Torched And Vandalized With Pro-Trump Slogan
Mississippi Church Torched And Vandalized With Pro-Trump Slogan
by Corky Siemaszko
The mayor of a Mississippi town where a black church was torched and vandalized with the words "Vote Trump" said Wednesday it is being "investigated as a hate crime."
Calling the burning of Hopewell Baptist Church in Greenville a "hateful and cowardly act," Mayor Errick Simmons said this was "an attack on the black community."
"It appears to be a race crime," Simmons said. "It happened in the 50s, it happened in the 60s. It shouldn't happen in 2016."
Greenville Police Chief Delando Wilson said they were "possibly talking to a person of interest," but they have no suspects in custody or surveillance video footage of the fire, which appears to have been deliberately set.
"It is a local person who lives in the area," Wilson, who declined to identify the man or his race, told NBC News.
Pastor Carolyn Hudson said their 200-member church had not received any recent threats.
"Our church was a historic church that has been there for over 111 years," said Hudson. "This has left our hearts broken, but we are strong together ... Y'all continue to pray for us."
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VOTE TRUMP Sprayed on a burned out Black Church in 2016, can you believe that?
How did we get here, when we are actually concerning voting for a person that unleash these low life's that will send a message like this?