2020 candidate meeting with Charleston church shooting survivors

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper will be in Charleston this weekend for a campaign visit highlighted by a meeting with survivors of the 2015 Charleston church shooting.

The Democratic candidate for president will meet Saturday with survivors of the racially-motivated killing of nine members of Emanuel AME Church, Hickenlooper’s campaign said.

The stop Saturday will also include meetings with local Democrats at Las Palmas Bar and Grill in Okatie at 2 p.m. and at Triangle Char and Bar in Charleston at 7:30 p.m.

Hickenlooper will finish his swing through South Carolina with 8 a.m. church services at Royal Missionary Baptist Church in North Charleston.

This story was originally published April 4, 2019 at 11:13 AM.

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