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Feds: Man pleads guilty to threatening to burn Black church

| August 6, 2020 3:03 AM

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to threatening to burn down a Black church in Virginia days after one of the church’s leaders took part in a vigil for George Floyd, a Black man who died in police custody in Minnesota.

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