Charleston shooting victim Clementa Pinckney’s chilling speech about Walter Scott

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On Thursday, legislators replayed a video of that speech at a Statehouse tribute to Pinckney, 41, who was killed with eight others by a gunman inside the historic black Charleston church he led as pastor. It offered testament to a career — quite long for a man so young — and a persona defined by interwoven faith and activism, "

*He was a very wise man to be so young. I’ve never seen or heard him say anything out of character,” Williams said. “I never saw him lose his temper or get angry.”

“He had a core not many of us have,” said Sen. Vincent Sheheen, who sat beside him in Senate chambers. “I think of the irony that the most gentle of the 46 of us — the best of the 46 of us in this chamber — is the one who lost his life.”

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