Gov. Haley To Attend Prayer Vigil For Charleston Shooting Victims Thursday

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks during a news conference at the BMW manufacturing plant in Greer, S.C., Friday, March 28, 2014. BMW announced a $1 billion expansion for the plant. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) will reportedly attend a prayer vigil for the victims of the mass shooting at a Charleston church on Thursday.

“Michael, Rena, Nalin and I are praying for the victims and families touched by tonight’s senseless tragedy at Emanuel AME Church. While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we’ll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another. Please join us in lifting up the victims and their families with our love and prayers,” Haley said in a statement about the shooting.

The vigil will be held at the Morris Brown AME Church at noon on Thursday, according to Charleston television station WCSC.

Nine people were killed when a white man opened fire during a Bible study meeting at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston on Wednesday. Police and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are investigating the attack as a hate crime. The gunman was still at large as of Thursday morning.

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  1. What’s she done, presiding over her state, to control guns? Or increase funding for mental illness? Or speak out against extreme political organizations? Or reform abusive police conduct?

    Instead, all she can do is say she’ll “never understand . . .”

  2. She’s right…she won’t ever understand.

  3. The hypocrisy of this b**ch and her legislature is overwhelming.

  4. It’s disgusting how Republicans are falling over themselves to condemn this terrorist attack and yet refuse to acknowledge that it’s their moronic policies on guns that allowed this to happen. Fucking hypocrites.

  5. TPM Headline: Gov. Haley To Attend Prayer Vigil For Charleston Shooting Victims Thursday

    But will Haley lower the Confederate flag flying over the capitol to half mast?

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