Posted on Sep 3, 2023
'It's like reopening a wound': Jacksonville shooting prompts anger, empathy from Buffalo to...
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The moment Melvin Graham learned three Black people were fatally shot in a racially motivated rampage at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, he said his mind raced back to June 17, 2015. That was the day his sister and eight other congregants of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, were gunned down by a white supremacist during a Bible study.
As he listened to news reports from Jacksonville describing the Aug. 26 massacre, Graham said his blood began to boil with anger that once again America was being rocked by a heinous hate crime like the one that claimed the life of his sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd.
As he listened to news reports from Jacksonville describing the Aug. 26 massacre, Graham said his blood began to boil with anger that once again America was being rocked by a heinous hate crime like the one that claimed the life of his sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd.
'It's like reopening a wound': Jacksonville shooting prompts anger, empathy from Buffalo to...
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."As he listened to news reports from Jacksonville describing the Aug. 26 massacre, Graham said his blood began to boil with anger that once again America was being rocked by a heinous hate crime like the one that claimed the life of his sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd.
"Here we go again. That was my reaction. It keeps happening over and over and over again," Graham told ABC News. "At the beginning, after my sister was executed, it affected me greatly and it still does because I know what these families are going through, I know the process that happens after these killings, the grief and the pain that they’re going through.""...
..."As he listened to news reports from Jacksonville describing the Aug. 26 massacre, Graham said his blood began to boil with anger that once again America was being rocked by a heinous hate crime like the one that claimed the life of his sister, Cynthia Graham Hurd.
"Here we go again. That was my reaction. It keeps happening over and over and over again," Graham told ABC News. "At the beginning, after my sister was executed, it affected me greatly and it still does because I know what these families are going through, I know the process that happens after these killings, the grief and the pain that they’re going through.""...
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Jacksonville mayor glad DeSantis came 'face to face with that pain' at vigil where he was booed
The white supremacist killer in Jacksonville, Florida was motivated by a "disgusting ideology of hate," according to the sheriff, that led him to gun down th...
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