Pastor urges sadness, not rage, after white shooter kills 3 Black people in Florida

The pastor of a church near the site of the racist shooting of three Black people inside a Florida store told congregants Sunday to follow Jesus Christ’s example and keep their sadness from turning to rage. The shooting came Saturday, the day thousands visited Washington, D.C., to attend the commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. The latest in a long history of American racist killings were at the forefront of Sunday services at St. Paul AME Church, about 3 miles from the crime scene. ‘Our hearts are broken,’ the Rev. Willie Barnes told about 100 congregants. ‘ I’m fighting trying to not be angry.’