Hillary Clinton: Charleston massacre an act of ‘racist terrorism’
FLORISSANT, Missouri – Hillary Clinton on Tuesday called the massacre at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last week “an act of racist terrorism.” She also said the Confederate flag – which flies at the South Carolina statehouse – has no place in American society today.
“How do we make sense of such an evil act?” Clinton said of the shooting while speaking at a black church here, calling the horrific attack “an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God.”
That goes beyond what FBI Director James Comey said Friday, when he told reporters in Baltimore that the massacre likely does not meet the federal definition of “terrorism.”
Clinton came to discuss race here at Christ the King Church, about four miles from where unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was killed last summer by a white police officer, tipping off weeks of racially tinged protests.
Clinton called on parishioners to turn their grief and anger over events like that into action to address poverty, racism and inequality. She also commended South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol’s ground.
The flag, Clinton said, is “a symbol from our racist past that has no place in our present nor in our future.”
“It shouldn’t fly there, it shouldn’t fly anywhere,” Clinton added to applause.
Clinton went to say that she applauded retailers like Wal-Mart that have pulled merchandise with the Confederate flag from their shelves.
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