Pennsylvania town reckons with Trump rally shooting: ‘The rhetoric has to stop’
by Edward Helmore in Butler, Pennsylvania from US news | The Guardian on (#6P70T)
In Butler, site of the ex-president's Saturday rally, residents grapple with atmosphere of political violence
Amid tight security and blocked-off roads, the small town of Butler, Pennsylvania, was attempting to come to terms with becoming the site of a major attempted US political assassination on Sunday.
Many went to church to make sense of events. At one, Father Kevin Fazio called on the congregation packed into pews to pray for our nation", but most of his flock seemed subdued by the violence that had come to town.
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