"This is a hate crime," said the mayor of a Mississippi town where a historic black church was a target of arson and vandalism Tuesday night.

Greenville Mayor Errick Simmons said that local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, were investigating the burning of 111-year-old Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church. "Vote Trump" was spray-painted on the outside of the church.

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