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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore in Butler, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania town reckons with Trump rally shooting: ‘The rhetoric has to stop’

road sign says 'brady paul ln' over field
A road sign on Sunday in Butler, near the site of the Trump campaign rally. Photograph: Carlos Osorio/Reuters

Amid tight security and blocked-off roads, the small town of Butler, Pennsylvania, was attempting to come to terms with becoming the site of a major attempted US political assassination on Sunday.

Many went to church to make sense of events. At one, Father Kevin Fazio called on the congregation packed into pews to “pray for our nation”, but most of his flock seemed subdued by the violence that had come to town.

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