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Mississippi Church Torched And Vandalized With Pro-Trump Slogan

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 9:28PM · 1289 views
News 2016 ELECTION DAY Nov 2 2016, 2:41 pm ET
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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Mississippi Church Torched And Vandalized With Pro-Trump Slogan

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Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, November 2nd 2016 at 10:40PM

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?

Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 4:44AM

Who painted the words?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 7:06AM

It very well could be the same people who burned the Church.

Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 9:34AM

It could be, but in that case not by someone who wants to see Trump elected.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 10:02AM

Then why burn a Black Church STEVEN and spray paint VOTE TRUMP on it?


Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 10:09AM

Maybe it's a false flag.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate...

Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 10:17AM

Political campaigning has a long history of this tactic in various forms, including in person, print media and electronically in recent years. This can involve when supporters of one candidate pose as supporters of another, or act as “straw men” for their preferred candidate to debate against. This can happen with or without the candidate's knowledge. The Canuck letter is an example of one candidate creating a false document and attributing it as coming from another candidate in order to discredit that candidate.[citation needed]

In the final days of Florida's 1994 gubernatorial campaign, Democratic Governor Lawton Chiles ran a false flag operation that paid for tens of thousands of calls to elderly voters using false organization names. The calls purported to be from Republican groups and told voters that Jeb Bush was against Social Security and seniors. Chiles denied his campaign was behind the calls. After winning re-election and facing an investigation, Chiles admitted the truth in November 1995.[36]

In 2006, individuals practicing false flag behavior were discovered and "outed" in New Hampshire[37][38] and New Jersey[39] after blog comments claiming to be from supporters of a political candidate were traced to the IP address of paid staffers for that candidate's opponent.

On 19 February 2011, Indiana Deputy Prosecutor Carlos Lam sent a private email to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker suggesting that he run a "'false flag' operation" to counter the protests against Walker's proposed restrictions on public employees' collective bargaining rights:

If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions' cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions ... Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions.[40][41]

The press had acquired a court order to access all of Walker's emails and Lam's email was exposed. At first, Lam vehemently denied it, but eventually admitted it and resigned.[41]

Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 11:35AM

It wasn't easy but I finally found the full press conference.

http://thetoptea.com/hopewell-baptist-chur...

Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 11:43AM

As of the 2013 American Community Survey, there were 33,928 people residing in the city. 75.9% were African American, 21.7% White, 0.0% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.9% from some other race and 0.7% from two or more races. 1.2% were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenville...

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 6:50PM

You are trying to hard to run interference for this church burning, Steven keep your powder dry until the police complete their investigations.



Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 7:17PM

I've added this to my list to keep track of, along with Philando Castile and Keith Lamont Scott.

Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 7:19PM

You probably didn't see that the second autopsy of Keith Lamont Scott showed he was shot in the back.

Steve Williams Thursday, November 3rd 2016 at 7:28PM

Don't you think it's strange Ron, charges of black voter intimidation when 76% of the population is black?

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, November 6th 2016 at 7:26AM

Don't you also find it strange, since you made that change and decided to hide behind that symbol, you don't show up as a blogger on this site any more? Have you notice that?

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