Rev. Clementa Carlos Pinckney

Death by Force

Reverend Clementa Carlos Pinckney, a prominent pastor and South Carolina state senator, tragically lost his life on June 17, 2015, in a mass shooting at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Pinckney, who was 41 years old at the time of his death, was leading a Bible study session when a gunman opened fire, killing him and eight other church members^1^. This horrific event was a racially motivated attack carried out by Dylann Roof, a white s ...Read More

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