Thousands of mourners on Wednesday streamed past the open casket of Clementa Pinckney, the esteemed pastor and state senator who lay in state under the Capitol dome a week after he and eight others were slain at a historic black Charleston church.
Pinckney’s widow, Jennifer, two young daughters, Eliana and Malana, other family members and lawmakers he served with during nearly two decades in the Legislature stood by the casket greeting those paying their respects. Portraits of Pinckney, who was dressed in a black suit and red tie, stood on either side of the casket.
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