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9 killed 1 injured June 17, 2015 Charleston South Carolina Black church shooting In the evening a mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, one of the United States' oldest black churches. The senior pastor, the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, a state senator, was among the nine people killed. Suspect Dylann Roof was captured the morning after the attack in Shelby, North Carolina. On his Facebook page his jacket unusually has flags of two former white supremacist regimes:apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia, symbols once but now rarely associated in recent times by white supremacists. Roof has a prior arrest record for drug possession and trespassing. Authorities are investigating if it was a hate crime, but FBI Director James Comey has refused to consider the rampage in Charleston an act of terrorism because it was not a political act.

Note - mass attacks against blacks, particularly black churches are extremely rare. Most attacks on black churches have been by other blacks, usually either mentally disturbed or pretending to be mentally disturbed.

*Tags

bomb threat
born on April 3, 1994.
black friends: many of his friends on Facebook were black
blacks are taking over the world: Friend heard hi msay Someone needed to do something about it for the white race,” Meek said. “He said he wanted segregation between whites and blacks. I said, ‘That’s not the way it should be.’ But he kept talking about it.”
black victims
College
confederacy: front license plate says "confederate states of america", studied history of the confederacy
cover story,
church attack
disinformation: nodisinfo it's a arch-zionist hoax
Dressed in black (common mass shooter / terrorist outfit) asked creepy questions at mall about closing times. His cover story parents asked him to apply to jobs but he did not fill out any applications.
drugs: former classmate said that Roof "used drugs heavily a lot"
Facebook,
FBI Charleston Massacre Not Political or an Act of Terrorism
Freddie Gray ranting - blacks taking over the world
Gun .45 pistol received as 21st birthday present from father thought to have used it in the shooting.
Jailed on March 1 2015 in South Carolina's Lexington County, on a drug charge,
John Stewart: reluctance to label domestic shootings of this kind as terrorism, led to what he called a “disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves”.
Mall attack initial plan Roof was arrested at a Columbia shopping mall on a misdemeanor drug charge after going around dressed in all black, asking suspicious questions about when stores closed and employees left for the night.
Massacres in houses of worship
Mass murder
Mass shooting
Motive: gunman told victims as he carried out the attack that he "had to shoot them", because "you rape our women and you're taking over our country". (usually say that against Latin American immigrants, not black Americans)
Parents: Roof as "on and off" with his parents and despite receiving a gun in April for his birthday from his father, his parents would not allow him to take possession of the gun until last week.
Planning for six months: roommate Dalton Tyler: was "planning something like that for six months.
"quiet and soft-spoken,”
racism motive
racist jokes but nobody took them seriously
Reverend Pinckney had held rallies after the shooting of Walter Scott by a white police officer on April 4 in nearby North Charleston, and as a state senator he pushed for legislation requiring police to wear body cameras.
rhodesia,
Right wing extremist
Roommate Dalton Tyler spoke to ABC News and said Roof had been "planning something like that for six months.
Segregation: He was big into segregation and other stuff,
Sister: Roof’s sister, Amber, was the one who notified the police after seeing surveillance footage of her brother on the news, the Post reported. Amber Roof had planned to get married Sunday, the paper reported, and her fiancé, Michael Tyo, lives just three miles from where Dylann Roof was arrested Thursday in North Carolina.
South Africa flag patch
Suicide: wanted to start a civil war... then kill himself.
Terrorism Charleston Massacre Not Political or an Act of Terrorism
Trayvon Martin murder ranting
White supremacist
White suspect

*Timeline

born on April 3, 1994.
Roof left White Knoll High School in February 2010 after repeating the ninth grade.
He transferred to Dreher High School in Columbia, but there is no record of him finishing school.
2013: mother of Roof’s former stepmother told the Journal he began to change in recent years.
“He apparently told people that he was involved in groups, racist groups,” she said, adding that he stopped going to high school. “He turned into a loner in the last couple of years and no one knew why,” she said. “He just fell off the grid somehow.”
January 2015 Roommate Dalton Tyler told ABC News that Roof was “planning something like that for six months.” “He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
February 28, Roof was arrested for drug possession at a mall in Columbia, where he was searched by officers after storekeepers complained that he was acting unusually and asking questions about opening hours and the number of staff on the premises. [Planning mall shooting?] Roof was found to have strips of Suboxone, a pain drug sometimes used to treat opiate addiction. He did not have a prescription for the drug, which is commonly sold illegally on the street
He was banned from the mall for three years
Jailed on March 1 2015 in South Carolina's Lexington County, on a drug charge,
April himself bought the handgun he used in the shooting
April 26, 2015 out on bond waiting for the courts to process his felony drug-possession charges when he was arrested in the parking lot of the same mall two months later. He was charged with trespassing on April 26, he was found guilty on that charge a month later and fined $262.50.
Few weeks before shooting: Roof reached out to Meek on Facebook. Meek says Roof had begun ranting about the murders of Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray and saying that black people were “taking over the world.” “He said blacks were taking over the world. Someone needed to do something about it for the white race,” Meek said. “He said he wanted segregation between whites and blacks. I said, ‘That’s not the way it should be.’ But he kept talking about it.”
acted erractic
he sometimes slept in his car
talked about burning an American flag
neck tattoo with the word “dagger.”
June 19: Roof talked 'freely' on video while in custody...told investigators he had been planning to go to Nashville, TN when he was captured.

*Reference

Heavy Dylann Storm Roof - Heavy.com The patches on Roof's jacket in his Facebook profile photo appear to match the flags for Apartheid-era South Africa (upper right) and Rhodesia.
Telegraph
Wikipedia

*Disinformation

Aangirfan Wednesday, 24 June 2015 DYLANN ROOF HOAX we have not seen one photo or image of an actual crime.
Veterans Today Dylann Roof – “The Manifesto Which Never Wuz” Updated Gordon Duff Dylan Roof murder Manifesto, “found on twitter” has all the subtlety of other famous PJ Media and Rita Katz/SITE Intelligence works more than cursory analysis of the killer’s manifesto indicates authorship by at least 3 people, one not a native English speaker, none from the South and at least one with an advanced degree in cultural anthropology and another with “Urban” or “Black” studies in their 1970s era educations. Those we deem responsible, the “usual cast of characters” are, by our estimation, the players here and not “pet targets” of VT. This probable “false flag” was staged here, Charleston, South Carolina, for a purpose and, as the document below makes overclear, serves an agenda that creates an inexorable trail. the hand of SITE and Katz, of the Heritage and Jamestown Foundations and PJ Media is seen along with the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League. Yes, we are talking Abraham Foxman again. SIMPLY BEAUSE OF THE NUMBERS OF NEGROES IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY COUNCIL OF CONSERVATIVE CITIZENS. (NOBODY UNDER 80 FOLLOWS THESE LOSERS)THERE WERE PAGES UPON PAGES OF THESE BRUTAL BLACK ON WHITE MURDERS.(WRITTEN LIKE A BAD PRESS TV OP-ED) I WAS IN DISBELIEF. (AN ADL SIGNATURE LINE) A RACIAL LENSE. (AN ACADEMIC TERM..PURPOSFULLY SPELLED RONG DESPITE SPELL CHECK) BLACK PEOPLE (FORGOT TO CALL THEM “NEGROES” OR “PEOPLE OF COLOR”…THIRD AUTHOR APPEARS )ARE RACIALLY AWARE ALMOST FROM BIRTH, WITNESS A DOG BEING BEAT BY A MAN. (PURPOSEFUL SYNTAX ERROR) YOU ARE ALMOST SURELY GOING TO FEEL VERY SORRY FOR THAT DOG. (LANGUAGE USAGE BY NOT NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKER) ANALOGY APPLIES TO BLACK AND WHITE RELATIONS. (MORE CHEAP 70’S ACADEMIC CHATTER) I HAVE READ HUNDREDS OF SLAVES NARRATIVES FROM MY STATE. (BANG!! WHEN YOU GOT YOUR PHD BEFORE JOINING THE ADL OR SPLC?) SEGREGATION DID NOT EXIST TO HOLD BACK NEGROES. (WE ARE BACK TO THIS N TERM AGAIN) NOW WHITE PARENTS ARE FORCED TO MOVE TO THE SUBURBS TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO “GOOD SCHOOLS”. (THEMES OF 1950’S ‘WHITE FLIGHT,’ NOT A FACTOR IN TODAY’S CITIES AND NEVER A FACTOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA) WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO FLEE THE CITIES WE CREATED FOR THE SECURITY OF THE SUBURBS? (ONE OF THE WRITERS HAS NEVER BEEN TO THE SOUTH OBVIOUSLY) WHITE CHILDREN WHO, BECAUSE OF SCHOOL ZONING LAWS, ARE FORCED TO GO TO A SCHOOL THAT IS 90 PERCENT BLACK? (THIS IS THE “BUSING” ISSUE OF THE 70’S) IN SOUTH AFRICA THEY HAVE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR THE BLACK POPULATION THAT MAKES UP 80 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION. (WE NOW ARE CONJUGATING THE SPLC’S ISSUES WITH A “NEGATIVE DEFENSE” OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION) I DONT PRETEND TO UNDERSTAND WHY JEWS DO WHAT THEY DO. THEY ARE ENIGMA. (HAS THE ADL CONFESSED TO WRITING THIS? I THINK WE HAVE A CONFESSION HERE.) Asians ARE BY NATURE VERY RACIST AND COULD BE GREAT ALLIES OF THE WHITE RACE. I AM NOT OPPOSED AT ALL TO ALLIES WITH THE NORTHEAST ASIAN RACES. (THIS OBSCURE REFERENCE IS TAKEN FROM AN ADL ARTICLE COPIED, TEN YEARS AGO, FROM STORMFRONT. NOW WE CAN SURMISE THAT THE ADL MAY WELL HAVE PLACED IT IN STORMFRONT IN THE FIRST PLACE.)
Nodisinfo Outrageous hate website calls blames every mass shooting on "zionists" June 21, 2015 Hard Proof S.C. Church Deaths were Faked for Financial Gain In what is a fraud of inconceivable proportions the city of Charleston, the Office of the Mayor, the arch-Zionist-controlled media, and the congregation of the Emanuel AME Church have conspired to commit a great crime upon humanity. This is to fake deaths of certain associated church individuals, including a number of pastors, and to use that fabrication as the basis for the solicitation of and collection of funds. Fake dead are a hallmark feature of arch-Zionist psyops hoaxes and were prominently featured in the 9-11 fraud, Sandy Hoax, and the Boston Marathon smoke bombing hoax. Without the fake dead and wounded there could be no psyops hoaxes. What is wrong with that house of worship? It seems to be a fine place. It is not. It is virtually condemned and this is of as little as a year ago:

*College attack plot

Jun 20, 2015 Friend of Dylann Roof says suspect planned attack on college Fox News Channel - suspect told him a week prior to the killings that he planned to shoot up a local college campus. while drinking in the back of Scriven’s house, Roof blurted out his plans to carry out a mass shooting at the College of Charleston. (83% white 6.5% black) "I don't think the church was his primary target because he told us he was going for the school," Scriven said Friday. "But I think he couldn't get into the school because of the security ... so I think he just settled for the church."

*Telegraph

He went to school at White Knoll High School in Lexington, South Carolina, a school which says its mission is to graduate students "who possess the attitude and character necessary to be productive citizens and lifelong learners".

former classmate at the White Knoll High School said that Roof "used drugs heavily a lot" and was interested in history of the Southern Confederacy.

"He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously

car - apparently the same as the getaway vehicle shown in police surveillance pictures on Thursday - bearing a "Confederate States of America" registration plate

*Terrorism

FBI Director: Charleston Massacre Not Political or an Act of Terrorism FBI Director James Comey has refused to consider the rampage in Charleston an act of terrorism. Speaking at a news conference in Baltimore Friday, Comey said the massacre would be investigated as a hate crime, but ruled out the term terrorism. James Comey: "I wouldn’t, because of the way we define terrorism under the law. Terrorism is an act of violence done or threatened to — in order to try to influence a public body or the citizenry, so it’s more of a political act. And again, based on what I know so far, I don’t see it as a political act."

*Wikipedia 6/18/2015

Charleston church shooting

On the evening of June 17, 2015, a mass shooting took place at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, United States. The church is one of the United States' oldest black churches and has long been a site for community organizing around civil rights.^[3] The senior pastor, the Rev.Clementa C. Pinckney, a state senator, was among the nine people killed.^[4] In the immediate aftermath, police sought a white male, later identified as Dylann Roof, who was captured the morning after the attack in Shelby, North Carolina.^[5] The shooting is being investigated as a hate crime by local and federal officials.^[1] It was the deadliest attack at an American place of worship since a 1991 mass murder at the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist temple in Waddell, Arizona in which nine people also died.^[6]

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Background[edit]

The 199-year-old church has played an important role in the state's history, including the slavery era and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Lives Mattermovement in the 2010s.^[7] The church was founded in 1816 and is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South, often referred to as "Mother Emanuel".^[4]^[8]It is the oldest historically black congregation south of Baltimore. When one of the church's co-founders, Denmark Vesey, tried to start a slave rebellion in Charleston in 1822, 35 people, including Vesey, were executed and the church was burned down.^[9]The congregation rebuilt the church in 1834.^[10]

Reverend Pinckney had held rallies after the shooting of Walter Scott by a white police officer on April 4 in nearby North Charleston, and as a state senator he pushed for legislation requiring police to wear body cameras.^[11] Robert Mickey, a University of Michigan political scientist, noted several similarities between the attack at Emanuel and the 1963 bombing of a politically active African-American church in Birmingham,Alabama where Ku Klux Klan members killed four black girls and injured fourteen others, an attack that galvanized the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.^[3] A number of scholars, journalists, activists, and politicians have emphasized the need to understand the attack in the broader context of racism in the United States, rather than seeing it as an isolated event of racially motivated violence.^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]

Details[edit]

At around 9:05 p.m. EDT on June 17, 2015, the Charleston Police Department responded to calls of a shooting at Emanuel A.M.E. church.^[9] A man described as white, with sandy-blond hair, around 21 years old and 5 feet 9 inches (175 cm) in height, wearing a gray sweatshirt and jeans, opened fire on the church during a Bible study attended by Senator Pinckney and then fled.^[16]^[17]

For nearly an hour prior to the attack, the shooter participated and stayed at the Bible study.^[18] A total of thirteen people attended the Bible study, including the shooter. According to the accounts of people who talked to survivors, the shooter asked for Pinckney and sat down next to him, initially listening to others during the study. He then began to disagree when they began speaking about Scripture. After a while, the shooter then stood up and pulled out a gun, aiming it at 87-year-old Susie Jackson. Jackson's nephew, 26-year-old recent college graduate Tywanza Sanders, tried to talk him down and asked him why he was attacking churchgoers, to which the shooter responded, "I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go." When he expressed his intention to shoot everyone, Sanders dove in front of Jackson and was shot first. The suspect then shot the other victims, all the while shouting racial epithets. Sanders' mother and his five-year-old niece, who were both attending the study, survived the shooting by pretending to be dead.^[19]^[20]^[21]^[6] Dot Scott, president of the local branch of the NAACP, said she had heard from victims' relatives that the shooter spared one woman (Sanders' mother^[22]) so she could, according to him, tell other people what happened.^[23]

Several hours later, a bomb threat was called into the Courtyard by Marriott hotel on Calhoun Street, complicating the investigation and prompting an evacuation of the immediate area.^[9]^[24]

Earlier that day, prior to the shooting, Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, campaigned in Charleston. She attended a fundraiser at a home less than half a mile (800 m) away and left before the shooting occurred. Pinckney was one of the attendees at the Clinton fundraiser.^[25]^[26]^[27]

Victims[edit]

All of the victims were black, consisting of six women and three men. Eight died at the scene, while the ninth, Daniel Simmons, died in the hospital.^[17]^[23] They were all killed by gunshots fired at close range.^[6] One other person was wounded, but survived.^[2] The fatalities were identified as:^[28]

Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd, 54, Bible study member
Susie Jackson, 87, Bible study member
Ethel Lee Lance, 70, church sexton
Depayne Middleton, 49, Bible study member
Clementa C. Pinckney, 41, church pastor and South Carolina state senator
Myra Thompson, 59, Bible study member
Tywanza Sanders, 26, Bible study member
Daniel Simmons, 74, reverend at the church
Sharonda Singleton, 45, reverend at the church

Suspect[edit]

Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) was named by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the suspected killer. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and was living in largely African-American Eastover at the time of the attack.^[6] One image on hisFacebook page shows him in a jacket decorated with the flags of two former nations noted for their white supremacist policies,apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia.^[29]^[30]^[31] Another online photo showed Roof sitting on the roof of his car showed an ornamental license plate with a Confederate flag on it.^[32] The flag was described as a "symbol of the struggle by a white minority engaged in an armed insurrection to preserve its right to violently enslave the black majority, has long been a divisive issue in the state" of South Carolina.^[33]

According to his roommate, Roof expressed his support of racial segregation in the United States and had intended to start a civil war.^[34] According to a childhood friend, Roof went on a rant about the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the 2015 Baltimore proteststhat were sparked by the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody.^[35] He also reportedly told neighbors of his plans to kill people, including a plot to attack the College of Charleston, but his claims were not taken seriously.^[36] However, it was noted by a former high school classmate that despite racist comments he made, a number of Roof's friends were black.^[37]

Roof attended several schools in two counties, including White Knoll High School in Lexington, in which he repeated the ninth grade, finishing it in another school. After that point, he apparently stopped attending classes and it was unclear whether he dropped out or was transferred to another school.^[37]^[38]^[36] He has a prior criminal record consisting of two arrests, both made in the months preceding the attack.^[39]^[40] On March 2, he was questioned about a February 28 incident at the Columbiana Centre inColumbia, in which he entered the mall wearing all-black clothing and asked employees unsettling questions. During the questioning, they found a bottle of what was later admitted to be Suboxone, a narcotic used to treat opiate addictions, and Roof was arrested for drug possession. He was subsequently banned from the Columbiana Centre for a year, but after he was arrested again on April 26 for trespassing on the mall grounds, the ban was extended to three additional years.^[35]^[37]

Roof's uncle, Carson Cowles, told Reuters that as his nephew was 19 years old he worried that "he still didn't have a job, a driver's licence or anything like that and he just stayed in his room a lot of the time".^[41]

Investigation[edit]

A man matching the description of the attacker was initially detained outside a nearby convenience store but was released after police determined he was not the perpetrator.^[9] The attack is being treated as a hate crime by police, and officials from the FBI were called in to assist in the investigation and manhunt.^[17]

On the morning after the attack, based on a tip-off from a florist who recognized the suspect from the CCTV screenshot which helped police apprehended the suspect, at 10:44 a.m., Roof was captured in a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina, approximately 245 miles from the shooting scene. He was armed with a gun during the arrest, though it was unclear if it was the same one used in the attack.^[5]^[42] From security camera images taken at the church and distributed to the media, the florist, identified as Debbie Dills from Gastonia, North Carolina, recognized Roof driving his car on U.S. Route 74, saying, "I got closer and saw that haircut. I was nervous. I had the worst feeling. Is that him or not him?" She called her employer, who contacted local police. Dills then tailed the suspect's car for 35 miles until she was certain authorities were moving in for an arrest.^[43] Roof waived his extradition rights and was flown back to South Carolina on the evening of June 18 to be held at the Charleston County jail.^[20]

Aftermath[edit]

At Morris Brown African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, numerous people of different races and religions attended a ceremony commemorating the victims and proclaimed that the attack would not divide the community.^[20]

Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, which tracks the activity of American hate groups, said the gunman's reported comments reflected a major topic on white supremacist Internet forums, which are preoccupied with the idea that whites are being hugely victimized by blacks and no one is paying attention. The specter of white women being sexually assaulted by black men has a long history as well, she said, "It's probably the oldest racist trope we have in the U.S."^[44] At this point in the investigation, it is unclear whether the suspect had any connection to hate groups, although Beirich says such groups have been growing over the past decade and "for several years South Carolina has been the place with the highest density of hate groups."^[45] The attack also prompted a response from President Obama, focusing on gun control issues, saying "this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries".^[46]

Reactions[edit]

A prayer vigil at Morris Brown AME Church

Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. denounced the attack and said:

"Of all cities, in Charleston, to have a horrible hateful person go into the church and kill people there to pray and worship with each other is something that is beyond any comprehension and is not explained. We are going to put our arms around that church and that church family."

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said:

"While we do not yet know all of the details, we do know that we'll never understand what motivates anyone to enter one of our places of worship and take the life of another. Please join us in lifting up the victims and their families with our love and prayers."^[47]

President Barack Obama held a press conference on June 18 and said:

"[I want] to express [my] deep sorrow over the senseless murders that took place last night. Michelle and I know several members of Emanuel AME Church. We knew their pastor, Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who, along with eight others, gathered in prayer and fellowship and was murdered last night. And to say our thoughts and prayers are with them and their families, and their community doesn’t say enough to convey the heartache and the sadness and the anger that we feel."^[48]

Eighteen candidates or likely candidates for the 2016 U.S. presidential election expressed reactions through various media.^[49]

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*Sources

6/19/2015

Salon: 'White AmericaMust Answer for the Charleston Church Massacre' Beginning the news day, the leftist and blatantly racist outlet tweeted the following message: White America must answer for the Charleston church massacre http://slnm.us/jTb5rgD 18 Jun 2015 writer of the article in the link, Chauncey DeVega, asks, "Where are the white fathers? When will white leadership step up?"

Final moments: Charleston church massacre: 'What happened in there was brutal' Guardian Friday 19 June 2015 Roof walked up the 23 slate grey steps that led to the main entrance of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church and asked for the pastor. It was Wednesday, and that meant Bible study night. On Wednesday at about 8pm Roof answered that call. Having asked for the pastor, he sat down right next to him. What is known is that Roof sat quietly among the worshippers for about an hour as they studied the Bible. Both local police and the FBI have declined to provide details about what happened next. cousin of Pinckney, relayed a harrowing account she said was provided to her by a female survivor.

Johnson told NBC that Roof sat next to Pinckney throughout the class, but then made his move as the meeting was coming to an end. “At the conclusion of the Bible study, from what I understand, they just start hearing loud noises ringing out. The suspect had already wounded a couple of individuals, including my cousin.”

Johnson said the survivor told her that Roof reloaded his weapon five times and engaged in conversation with his victims as they pleaded with him to stop.

The survivor’s son, who was also at the meeting, “was trying to talk him out of doing that act of killing people”, Johnson said. She added that Roof replied: “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”

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Daily Beast‎ - reportedly confessed to killing nine inside a black church, wore pro-apartheid flags, made a ‘lot of racist jokes,’ and was arrested with pain meds.

Dylann Storm Roof has reportedly confessed to killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston because he hoped it would start a “race war.” told police that he himself bought the handgun he used in the shooting in April, a “He used drugs heavily a lot,” Mullins said. “It was obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that.” he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs,” he said. “He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.”

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June 19, 2015 Daily Show's Jon Stewart on Charleston shooting: 'This was a terrorist attack' ‘I’m confident that by acknowledging it, we still won’t do jackshit,’ US TV host tells viewers, after murder of nine people in a South Carolina church The Daily Show host Jon Stewart has slammed America’s response to the mass shooting in a South Carolina church, predicting that nothing would be done in the wake of a “terrorist attack” that left nine people dead... The reluctance to label domestic shootings of this kind as terrorism, he went on, led to what he called a “disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves”. “If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism … we invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives, and now fly unmanned death machines over, like, five or six different countries … “Nine people. Shot in a church. What about that? Eh. What are you gonna do? Crazy is as crazy is, right?”

Governor Calls for Charleston Shooting Suspect to Face Death Penalty New York Times At Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Calhoun Street, where the shooting took place, scores of bouquets rested on the sidewalk, along with wreaths and a simple wooden cross. »Who is the Charleston church shooting suspect?CNN
Update: Gunman In Church Shooting Due In Court FridayWOWT
Opinion:Charleston suspect allegedly joined Bible study, then opened fireBoston Globe

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Man who lost father in Sikh Temple shooting heads to Charleston: “Very similar ... fox6now.com Nine people were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina Wednesday night, June 17th

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Many Ask, Why Not Call Church Shooting Terrorism? New York Times Against the backdrop of rising worries about violent Muslim extremism in the United States, advocates see hypocrisy in the way the attack and the man under arrest in the shooting have been described by law enforcement officials and the news media.

Why did some British papers underplay the Charleston shooting? The Guardian Would UK national newspaper editors have given greater coverage to the church massacre if the shooter had been black and the victims had been white?

The shootings featured in stories and pictures on the front pages of the Independent (“America’s shame”), the Guardian (“Cold stare of the racist killer who stunned America”) and Metro (“I have to kill you”). There were also small page 1 blurbs in the Times and Daily Mirror.

The Daily Telegraph confined its coverage to a foreign news page, here. The Times, in similar fashion, ran it on pages 30 and 31. The Daily Mail gave it a page and a half. The Sun’s spread, headlined Fiend from the swamp, was complemented by an editorial.

i’s story was on page 6: “Suspected killer of nine black churchgoers was given gun by his parents for 21st birthday”. The Mirror’s spread used a quote headline from the suspect, Dylann Roof, “I have to do it.. you rape our women & are taking over our country”. It also carried an editorial.

I couldn’t locate the story at all in either the Daily Express or the Daily Star.

Fox & Friends Exploits South Carolina Church Shooting To Call For More Guns Media Matters for America (blog) On June 17, a gunman killed nine after opening fire at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Commenting on the massacre, "[t]he chief of police of Charleston, Greg Mullen, called the shooting a hate crime," according to The New ...

Charleston shooting victims' names released Fox 59 Charleston County Coroner Rae Wooten identified the nine shooting victims as follows: Cynthia Hurd, 54; Susie Jackson, 87; Ethel Lance, 70; Rev.

Republican Candidates React (or Don't) to Charleston Shooting Newsweek

Charleston church shooting: Prayers held across US BBC News Speaking for the first time since the deadly attack on the AME church where she worshipped, Sharonda's two children, Chris and Camryn, told me they forgive the man who killed her. "We already forgive him and there's nothing but love from our side of ...

Southern Poverty Law Center: Hate On The Rise Because Obama Is In The ... Daily Caller Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) president Richard Cohen responded to the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting by saying that hate groups are on the rise because President Obama is a black man in the White House.

Cynthia G. Hurd, Librarian, Among Those Killed in Charleston Shooting Library Journal Cynthia Hurd On the night of Wednesday, June 17, a gunman opened fire at a prayer meeting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, SC; officials described the shooting as racially motivated. The suspect was ...

New video shows church group moments before shooting CNN CNN's Don Lemon reports on exclusive new video from inside the bible study at the Emanuel AME Church class before the shootings in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Nine Are Killed in Charleston Church Shooting; Gunman Is Sought New York Times In the first hours after the shooting, the police blocked reporters and passers-by from approaching the church, opposite a Marriott Courtyard hotel, because of a bomb threat. Many among the news media cluster were political reporters in town to cover ...
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Update: 6 females, 3 males were killed at church (+ video)The State
9 Dead in Shooting at Historic Black Church in South CarolinaNew York Magazine
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Opinion:Charleston church shooting: Without gun control, racism will keep killing ...The Guardian
In Depth:Nine Dead, Suspect at Large in Shooting at South Carolina ChurchNewsweek
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Watch South Carolina Governor Give Emotional Speech After Shooting 2 hr ago TIME - Francesca Trianni
"We woke up today, and the heart and soul of South Carolina was broken" the governor said on Thursday...

Nine shot, multiple fatalities reported in downtown church shooting Charleston Post Courier A bomb threat complicated the investigation and prompted police to ask nearby residents to evacuate. Reporters and other onlookers huddled at the scene awaiting details on what could prove ... As the shock of the shooting began to sink in, Riley said ...

Man taken into custody during Charleston shooting investigation has been ... Live 5 News Austin Rich says he was let go around 11:30 p.m. Rich, a local photographer, was interviewing people in the area of Calhoun and Meeting regarding theshooting. According to Rich, he stopped at a gas station, and when he left the station, a police ...

Nine killed in shooting at historic church in South Carolina; incident ... fox6now.com SOUTH CAROLINA - A white man walked into a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, and opened fire during a Bible study class, killing nine people Wednesday evening.

US needs to address gun violence after African American church shooting: Obama AFP A clearly frustrated President Barack Obama said on Thursday the United States should look again at how killers get their hands on guns, after what he called "senseless murders" at a historic black church. president expressed anger over the attack, in which a white suspect opened fire on a Bible study group in a church in Charleston, South Carolina and killed nine members of the mainly black congregation.

Former Obama Administration Official Blames South Carolina Governor Nikki ... Daily Caller A former Obama administration official wasted no time in politicizing a shooting at a black Charleston, S.C. church that left nine people dead.

After church shooting, Obama urges national reckoning on gun violence

3 hr ago Guns.com - Daniel Terrill
After the DOJ announced a hate crime investigation into the shooting at a historic black church, the president described his feelings on the matter. The post After church shooting, Obama urges national reckoning on gun...

Charleston Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Wore Pro-Apartheid, Rhodesia Patches On Jacket

4 hr ago Huffington Post - Ryan Grenoble
Judging from the patches affixed to the jacket he's wearing in his Facebook profile picture, suspected Charleston church shooter Dylann Storm Roof may have had racial motives for the crime. In the photo, Roof stares...

S. Carolina church shooting suspect arrested; identified as Dylann Storm Roof, 21 — RT USA
RT.com‎ - 7 hours agoOutside of Dylan Roof's home in Eastover. ... with two flag patches: one of Apartheid-era South Africa, and the other ofRhodesia, before it became majority-ruled Zimbabwe.

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Suspected Shooter. Two patches identified. Rhodesian flag ...
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Daily Kos6 hours ago - Rhodesian flag and Apartheid South African flag. by 8ackgr0und .... Apartheid South Africa and white Rhodesia. ... [new] Dylan Roof (3+ / 0-).

What alleged Charleston shooter Dylann Roof's Rhodesia ...
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The Daily Dot1 hour ago - In part, it's because it's now called Zimbabwe. But it's also becauseRhodesia never formally existed. It was a breakaway state formed in 1965, ...

Suspect held after Charleston church shooting - Newstalk
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1 hour ago - In his Facebook profile picture, Roof can be seen wearing a jacket bearing the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia from when the ...

Who is South Carolina church shooting suspect Dylan Roof?
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The Gazette5 hours ago - A sparse Facebook page shows an image of Roof in a jacket with the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Charleston church shooting suspect apprehended in Shelby ...
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6 hours ago - Dylan Roof, the suspect in the shooting in Charleston, S.C., ... the flag of the African nation of Rhodesia, which is now known as Zimbabwe.

Dylann Storm Roof Identified As Charleston Shooting ...
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The Huffington Post3 days ago - Roof's Facebook profile picture shows him wearing a jacket decorated with patches of the South African apartheid-era flag and the Rhodesian ...

Dylan Roof: Profile of Charleston church shooting suspect ...
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The Daily Telegraph3 hours ago - Dylan Roof was arrested on Thursday as the chief suspect in the murder of ... South Africa, and white minority rule Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Attorney General Lynch: 'I Can Confirm That There Is a Suspect in Custody' in Church Shooting
5 hr ago AP
Attorney General Lynch: 'I can confirm that there is a suspect in custody' in church shooting...

Watch Pastor Killed in Charleston Church Give Haunting Speech

5 hr ago TIME - Francesca Trianni
"Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we're part of the life and community in which our congregation resides"

Police arrest Dylann Storm Roof, suspect in Charleston church shooting

5 hr ago Daily Dot - Dell Cameron
Dylann Roof was identified by his uncle to the police.

Dylann Storm Roof: Charleston Shooting Suspect Spoke Of Black Rapists As Motive

5 hr ago Inquisitr - Patrick Frye
With the church shooting suspect identified as Dylann Storm Roof, Charleston is now asked to be on the lookout. Witnesses of the Charleston shooting are also explaining what the motive for attacking Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal...

Social Media Reacts to the Charleston Shooting, Asking 'Where Can We Be Black?

5 hr ago TIME - Tessa Berenson
From Solange Knowles to Taylor Swift...

Breaking: Suspect identified in Charleston church shooting

5 hr ago Guns.com - Daniel Terrill
As the manhunt is still ongoing, authorities have named a suspect in last night's deadly shooting at a historic at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The post Breaking: Suspect identified in Charleston church...

The Historic Legacy of Black Charleston Church Where Shooting Occurred

5 hr ago TIME
Created in 1816, Emanuel Church has been home to slave uprisings, secret worship, and more...

The Pastor Killed in Charleston Had Been State Senator for 14 Years

9:16 AM TIME - Eric Dodds
Reverend Clementa Pinckney was the youngest senator in South Carolina's history...

Justice Spokesman: Federal Officials Opening Hate Crime Investigation Into Church Shooting
8:53 AM AP
Justice spokesman: Federal officials opening hate crime investigation into church shooting...

Suspect Spent an Hour With Victims in Charleston Before Shooting Them

8:46 AM TIME - Tessa Berenson
The attack left nine dead...

Witness Charleston's Grief After 9 Killed in Church Race Attack

8:13 AM TIME - Mikko Takkunen
"There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that it is hate crime," Police Chief Greg Mullen told a news conference Thursday...

Nine dead in mass shooting at SC church

8:01 AM Hot Air - Jazz Shaw
Carnage...

Everything We Know About the Charleston Shooting

7:45 AM TIME - Tessa Berenson
Police are treating it as a hate crime...

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