Southern Poverty Law Center Dylann Roof

The southern poverty law center splc used plagiarism software to analyze roof s 2 000 word manifesto.

Southern poverty law center dylann roof. Southern poverty law center january 18 2017 how did dylann roof go from being someone who was not raised in a racist home to someone so steeped in white supremacist propaganda that he murdered nine african americans during a bible study. Richard cohen president southern poverty law center. It found a number of postings on the daily stormer a guttural neo nazi website that were remarkably similar to parts of the manifesto. I think it s a case of domestic terrorism.

Dylann roof stared blankly ahead during his first court appearance days after he gunned down nine black parishioners in charleston south carolina in 2015 huffpost reported from the courthouse at the time. Video of the miseducation of dylann roof. Pinckney and injured. Roof was flanked by two guards in a remote room with a video screen connecting him to the rest of the court.

Dylann roof may have been a regular commenter at neo nazi website the daily stormer southern poverty law center. Splc is a nonprofit tax exempt 501 c 3 organization ein. The postings were signed by aryanblood1488. The ccc is the modern reincarnation of the old white citizens councils which were formed in the 1950s and 1960s to battle school desegregation in the south.

Richard cohen the president of the southern poverty law center said roof was not known to his organization which tracks hate crimes across the us but based on his facebook page he appeared to. The symbols donned by the accused charleston shooter dylann roof patches of south african and rhodesian regimes during a time of brutally enforced white minority rule and a litany of photos displaying the confederate flag combined with a 2 500 word manifesto calling on whites to take drastic action are just a couple of the red flags pointing to roof s white supremacist beliefs. Charleston church shooter dylann roof s manifestocited the hate group council of conservative citizens ccc as his gateway into the world of white nationalism. During a bible study at emanuel african methodist episcopal church roof killed nine people all african americans including senior pastor and state senator clementa c.

It s political violence by a nonstate actor aimed at intimidating a large group of people. It appears that the charleston church shooter dylann roof may have been even more immersed in the online white supremacist movement than previously thought.