By Jana Winter

PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro criticized Republican President Donald Trump’s words following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, saying that leaders need to urge calm following acts of violence.

“What we’re seeing now from the president of the United States and some of his allies, is by cherry-picking certain violence that is OK and certain violence that is not OK, that is making everyone less safe and it’s raising the temperatures instead of lowering the temperatures,” said Shapiro, whose official residence was the target of an April arson. “What we need right now is calm.”

The shooting of Kirk, who was speaking to an audience of college students in Utah, was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent U.S. f

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