Man Sent to Mental health after threat on a black church in Virginia

A man has been sent to an emergency mental health care facility after he threatened to kill members of a black church just one day after the Charleston massacre.

Police in South Richmond, Virginia raced to the United Nations Church International after being warned that a large white man was banging on the door making threats to kill the parishioners inside, while using racially loaded terminology.

Officers were told the man was armed with a knife or a machete as he threatened the people inside the church.