Watch President Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' at the funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney
President Obama delivered a eulogy for the late Rev. Clementa Pinckney on Friday in Charleston, South Carolina. Pinckney, who also served South Carolina as a state senator, was killed along with eight others in a shooting at the Emanuel AME Church last week that is being investigated as a hate crime.
During Obama's stirring eulogy, he broke out his smooth baritone for a rendition of "Amazing Grace." He was quickly joined by the rest of the congregants:
"Clementa Pinckney found that grace," Obama said after the song, finishing off with a preacher-like acknowledgement of the eight other victims. "May grace now lead them home."
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