Slain S.C. pastor Clementa Pinckney was 'a giant, a legend'

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“He was a giant, a legend, a moral compass.”

Those are the words used by fellow state senator Marlon Kimpson on CNN Thursday morning to describe Clementa Pinckney, the pastor and politician who was among nine people killed when a gunman, believed to be white, opened fire Wednesday evening at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.