A jury in Charleston, S.C., has found Dylann Roof guilty on all 33 counts of federal hate crimes he faced for murdering nine people and attempting to kill three others in the basement of a historically black church.
Federal prosecutors are seeking a death sentence. Roof has asked to represent himself in the penalty phase of the trial, which is scheduled to begin Jan. 3.
The guilt phase of the trial featured six days of testimony from 30 witnesses, including a recorded confession and excerpts from Roof's journal, and painted a picture of a young man filled with racial hatred who spent months planning to murder black people.
Roof entered Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in downtown Charleston on the evening of June 17, 2015, and, for nearly an hour, sat among a dozen people at a bible study before opening fire during the worshippers' final prayer.
They better sentence this guy before Donald Trump gets sworn in and gives him amnesty.
Don't forget that a large swath of Trump supporters most likely consider this guy a folk hero. And Trump certainly wants to keep these folks happy and voting for his candidates in midterm elections now doesn't he?
After all it appears that this is going to be Donald Trump's America, and in Donald Trump's America this is probably considered a protected expression of white pride.
In addition to being a red flag waving for terrorists we are going to see many more senseless hated crimes such as this under a Trump presidency. As horrifying as this crime was, I fear it may pale in comparison to future crimes committed by self radicalized racist bastards like Roof.
ReplyDeleteYes. Lets dissect this young person? How, What, Why, When and How did this male baby become a murderer full of hate? How does a child turn into a murderer full of hate in the 21st century America?
ReplyDeleteA child? He was born April 3, 1994. At 22 years old, he has been an adult for 4 years.
DeleteSome Blacks charged with murder are tried as adults at 15 years old. Child? Get real.
I may have an answer.
DeleteKeep that child ignorant, as ignorant as the parents/idiots who didn't bother to plan out the pregnancy of a wanted child, while using contraception until the time was right to have & parent that wanted child together, with as much thought as possible put into that child's intellectual growth, instead of a bunch of xtian crapo lies. Just, y'know, OOPS a baby, gotta have it, thus saith the laird.
Couple that ignorance with the rampant poverty that runs thru the white communities as well as the black communities in that red state, and the fundie xtians that are literally everywhere(plus, don't spare the rod or you'll spoil that child), and you got a stew.
I'm so glad I no longer live outside Charleston SC. The white hate was palpable, and I couldn't shut my heart to the centuries of misery the slaves suffered, the damn place was haunted with it. Black communtites still have it much rougher than the poor white ones. And that goddamned rag of a flag hanging everywhere......
"Heritage, not Hate"? BULLSHIT!
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/trumps-pick-for-interior-secretary-has-links-to-neo-confederate-group-that-inspired-dylann-roof/
ReplyDelete"Zinke endorsed a Montana statehouse candidate who was active in a white nationalist group as a student at Liberty University and has extensive ties to European right-wing extremists.
Taylor Rose, the former vice president of the Youth for Western Civilization, lost his election race, but he boasted that Zinke’s support — along with the backing of a couple of other Republicans — made him a mainstream candidate despite his racist writings, which were promoted by the Council of Conservative Citizens."
White supremacists and neoconfederates at Liberty University?!~ GTFO! (/s)
He won't get the death penalty.
ReplyDeleteBetween the deluded that will say no one should get the death penalty, the religious nuts that will claim it's sin, the Nazis who will declare him a martyr and the trial was fixed and threats to riot and liberate him from the "libruls."
He'll be on death row for years. And yeah, Trump will probably pardon him at the end of his term for no reason but someone put him on a list and told him "sign this."
I disagree. He will get the death penalty.
DeleteGryphen is showing his utter ignorance in his personal opinions trying to combine this nut with Trump voters. Total ignorance. What a fool. Once again showing the true racists are so called progressive like Gryphen.
I also think he'll be sentenced to death. It was premeditated, he's shown no remorse, he targeted his victims based on race, and it took place inside a church.
DeleteWhether he actually ends up being executed is anyone's guess.
O/T Since slavery, some of us Black folks just punch our selves in the face, the cracker that sucker punch the trump protester got a handshake and a hug, talking about they got to heal the Country, WTF?! what about "Next time we may have to kill him" It's black men like him that make it easy for racist white people to walk all over us.. I'm sooo done.
ReplyDeletesay what?
ReplyDeleteThey better sentence this guy before Donald Trump gets sworn in and gives him amnesty.
Don't forget that a large swath of Trump supporters most likely consider this guy a folk hero. And Trump certainly wants to keep these folks happy and voting for his candidates in midterm elections now doesn't he?