Clementa Carlos Pinckney, a 41-year-old African American man, was a respected state senator and the senior pastor of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. On the evening of June 17, 2015, he was leading a bible study at his historic church, a place of worship and a beacon for the Black community for 200 years. That night, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof was welcomed into the bible study group, where he sat for about an hour before opening fire on
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