Sunday 11 April, 2021
“This is not an act of terrorism,” the mayor of Charleston said.
Some shouted at him, while others offered forgiveness for the mass shooting in South Carolina in 2015.
The US Justice Department said he is the first person to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes.
Roof gunned down nine black churchgoers and will represent himself at a sentencing hearing.
“I think it’s a bad idea,” said the judge presiding over the case.
The 22-year-old shot nine black people dead in a racially-motivated attack in South Carolina last year.
Felicia Sanders spoke of telling her granddaughter to play dead as her son lay dying beside her.
11 members of the 12-man jury are white.
The alleged shooter Vester Lee Flanagan II, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said the Charleston shooting in June led him to buy a gun.
This is something you couldn’t make up.
He was speaking at the funeral of a black pastor killed in the Charleston massacre.
He said the Charleston shooter was “blinded by hatred.”
The title of a lecture held at the church last night was “The Power of Love.”
Dylann Roof was arrested the morning after the Charleston shootings.
The flag has been much debated in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting.
The US President was speaking on a comedian’s podcast.
The unsigned writings on the site says that the Trayvon Martin case was the trigger for Roof becoming “racially aware”.
The Republican governor said drugs, and not gun control, may be the real issue here.
“May God have mercy on you.”
Dylann Storm Roof was arrested yesterday after allegedly shooting nine people dead.
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Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager was videoed shooting Walter Scott dead.
A bus driver abandoned her vehicle for eight hours, leaving 45 passengers stranded at a petrol station in Missouri.
