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DonViejo

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Fri Jun 2, 2017, 02:35 PM Jun 2017

Kentucky Governor Plans for Dealing with a Rising Murder Rate? Pray it Away [View all]

Source: Mediaite


by Halli Goldman | 1:03 pm, June 2nd, 2017

Prayer works, right? Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin certainly thinks so.

CBS reported that at a community meeting, Bevin encouraged people to form “prayer groups” and walk through high-crime areas. “Go around the block, pause on each corner, pray for the people there, move to the next corner,” he said.

Don’t worry, he provided details.

Bevin urged volunteers to make teams ranging from three to ten people to walk the same block, at the same time of day, two or three times a week, and hoped people would make a yearlong commitment.

Police investigated 118 homicides last year, but the current year’s murder rate is on track surpass that number.



Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/kentucky-governor-plans-for-dealing-with-a-rising-murder-rate-pray-it-away/

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