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Jacksonville shooting
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Get the latest news on the racist shooting at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, where a white gunman killed three Black shoppers.
References to Rhodesia, the white minority-ruled African territory now known as Zimbabwe, have been made by the 2015 Charleston church shooter and segregationist lawmakers.
The governor has announced funding for security at a historically Black college where the gunman first appeared before killing three Black people at a Dollar General store.
President Joe Biden condemned the shooting and said a federal civil rights probe was treating it “as a possible hate crime and act of domestic violent extremism.”
The shooting at a Dollar General devastated families, left a community in mourning and reminded the country yet again of the horrors of racist violence.
A national security review by the Biden administration found that white supremacists represented one of the most “persistent and lethal threats” facing the homeland.
The shooter, a white man, killed three people after writing messages expressing hatred for Black people. He killed himself after opening fire in a dollar store.
