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Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in
frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this
one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white,
21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that
read like “the diary of a madman.” Following services earlier in the day, about
200 people showed up at a Sunday evening vigil a block from the Dollar General
store in Jacksonville where officials said Ryan Palmeter opened fire Saturday
using guns he bought legally despite a past involuntary commitment for a mental
health exam. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is running for the GOP
nomination for president, who has loosened gun laws in Florida and who has
antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding “wokeness " — was loudly booed as
he addressed the vigil.