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Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to visit with community and faith leaders near Opelousas, Louisiana, where three black churches were destroyed by an arsonist.
News outlets report the White House says Pence will tour the remains of one of the churches on Friday and meet with Republican U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy. The Rev. Gerald Toussaint says he and reverends from the other burned churches will also be meeting with the vice president.
A local sheriff's deputy's 21-year-old son, Holden Matthews, has been charged in the March and April burnings with offenses including arson. He's pleaded not guilty and is set to appear in court Thursday for a bond hearing.
A crowdfunding campaign for the churches' restoration has raised more than $2.1 million.
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/05/02/us/ap-us-fire-black-churches-mike-pence.html
Rebl2
(13,621 posts)isnt he?
Initech
(100,155 posts)malaise
(269,365 posts)This after Hillary et al raised the money to rebuild the churches - go fuck yourself Pence
Ohiogal
(32,213 posts)Sanctimonious asshole
fleur-de-lisa
(14,629 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)getting from his association with white nationalism was getting to be too much, so he figured he could send human shield Pence down there, and then spin the church-burnings like it's an attack on Christianity, as opposed to a racist hate crime, which anyone with an IQ above room temperature realizes it is.