dylann storm roof

On June 17th, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof killed nine people in the Charleston Church Massacre. At 8 pm he entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church where they were holding a bible study, he spent almost an hour with the group, who welcomed him in, they had closed their eyes to pray, and at around 9 pm, Roof started shooting. He shot 74 shots with a .45-caliber Glock pistol and nine people were killed in the shooting including Rev. Clementa Pinckney 41, Rev. Sharonda Singleton 45, Rev. Depayne Middleton-Doctor 49, Rev. Daniel L. Simmons 74, Ethel Lee Lance 70, Cynthia Hurd 54, Susie Jackson 87, Myra Thompson 59, and Tywanaza Sanders 26. (rev is an abbreviation of reverend which is a title for official workers of the church) The church was a predominantly black church and all of the victims were black men and women. There were three more in the shooting, two of them were left unharmed and one was harmed but not in a critical condition. Felicia Sanders was one of the survivors, Roof had both killed her son and aunt in the shooting. Another person who survived was a five-year-old whom Sanders fled with when the shooting was happening.. " I feel sad for you" she told Roof in the courtroom. "when i look at you, i just see somebody who is cold, who is lost, who the devil has come back to reclaim" "yes, i forgive you. That was the easiest thing I had to do. But you cant help someone who dont want to help themselves and that is you" Sanders no longer attends Emanuel AME, instead, she goes to a nearby church, but faith remains an integral part of her life. Polly Sheppard is another in the shooting whom Roof left alone saying he wanted her to tell others what he had done.
Dylann was caught around 11 am the day after. He was arrested about 245 miles north in Shelby, North Carolina, during a traffic stop. The cops received a tip from Debbie Dills whom reconized Roof driving his car, a black Hyundai Elantra with South Carolina license plates and a three-flag Confederate States of America bumper decoration. She later recalled: "I got closer and saw that haircut. I was nervous. I had the worst feeling. Is that him or not him?" She then called her employer, who contacted the police, and then trailed Roof's car for 25 miles until she was certain authorities were moving in for an arrest.

Interview, Trial and Conviction

interview:
He was taken to Shelby police station and interviewed him for two hours Roof described buying the gun and ammunition two moths prior when he turned 21, he bought eight magazines loaded with 11 hollow-point pullets which he used in the massacree. He explained that when he bought the gun "he wanted the big, the best, the biggest caliber" He wanted to kill African Americans to obtain retribution for the wrongs he belived they had inflicted on white people. "i had to do it" he had told the agents. He stated that "black people are killing white people every day on the streets and they rape a hundred white women a day" He commented that what he did was "so miniscule to what theyre doing to white people every day, all the time and just because that doesnt get on the news, doesnt mean its not happening" He reconized that the people he shot was innocent but stated that "black people kill innocent white people every day" Roof also called himself a white nationalist who belived that white people are superior to black people. He explained that he chose Mother Emanuel for his attack because it would be a good place to find African Americans, Roof thought about going to a black festival, but he knew a festival would have security so instead he searched up black churches in Charleston. He knew they would be holding a bible study class there that evening because, on a privious visit to Charleston, a parishioner outside the church told Roof that bible study classes were held wednesday nights.

pretrail and trail:
Roof offered to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life imprisonment, but the government rejected that offer, so Roof proceeded to a jury trial. Roof explained he was unwilling to allow mental-health mitigation because it discredits the reason why he committed the crime. Dr. James Ballenger who evaluated Roof's mental health determined that Roof's unwillingness to cooperate was not the result of a mental disorder but rooted in a deep-seated racial prejudice. He invoked his right to self-representation which the court determined he had the mental capacity to do. At the end of the court-directed voir dire that identified 67 qualified jurors, Roof requested that standby counsel resume representing him until the end of the guilt phase. The court granted that request, and defense counsel resumed representation at the point where the parties made strikes from the 67-person venire. The case proceeded to a jury trial. The government presented eyewitness testimony from two survivors, Felicia Sanders and Polly Sheppard. It also introduced evidence from local law enforcement officers, medical personnel, FBI agents, and other experts that established Roof's guilt. After the court ruled that mental-health evidence could be presented at the guilt phase only if it negated an element of the crime, the defense rested without presenting any witnesses, and Roof elected not to testify. On December 15th, 2016, the jury convicted Roof on all counts. Before the penalty phase, the government submitted notice of aggravating factors. Those included three statutory aggravating fators: Roof had engaged in substantial premeditation and planning, killed multiple people in a single episode, and killed three parishioners who were especially vulnerable due to age. The government also included six non-statutory aggravating factor: Roof attempted to incite violence, caused loss to the parishioners' families, endangered the safety of others, murdered based on race, targeted worshippers in a church to magnify his inpact, and demonstrated no remorse. Roof indentified one statutory mitigating factor: he had no significant prior criminal history. He also alleged eight non-statutory mitigators: he was 21 at the time of the offense, had offered to plead guilty, would face danger of violence from other inmates, would likely have to serve his sentence in isolation, had cooperated with arresting authorities, confessed to his crimes, had no prior history of violence, and was capable of redemption. The government filed a motion in limine opposing those mitigators suggesting that the jury should select life in prison bacause it would be especially onerous for Roof, stating they were not proper mitigating factors and the court agreed. Roof later filed notice of his intent to offer two additional non-statutory mitigating factors: that he poses no significant risk of violence to inmates or prison staff if improsoned for life and that he can be safely confined in prison. The government presented victim.inpact testimony from 23 witnesses. The jury also heard from Lauren Knapp of the Charleston County Sheriff's Offices, who described Roof's continued writings in prison and FBI Agent Joseph Hamski, who described other evidence of premeditation and lack of remorse. In his writings, Roof provided a further explanation of his racist beliefs and wrote that his actions where "worth it" Roof believed he had done "what he thought would make the biggest wave, and now the fate of our race sits in the hands od out brothers who continue to live freely" Roof did not cross-examine any witnesses or present any evidence during the penalty phase where he self-represented, but he delivered an opening statement and a closing argument. During the trial a survivor was giving her testimony of what happened during the shooting, Roof's mother had collapsed in court and suffered a heart attack. Three days into trail, a video recording of Roof talking to FBI agents shortly after the shooting was played in court, in which Roof laughed as he admitted that he had killed the people at the church. He also admitted that he had "drunk a little" just before visiting the church.

verdict:
The jury unanimously found four fateway intet factors that made Roof death-eligible. The jury then deliberated about what penalty to impose. It found all aggravating factors beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury found most of Roof's mitigating factors to exist, but no juror found by a preponderance of the evidence that Roof was capable of redemption, posed no significant risk of dangerousness in prison, or could be safely confined. The jury found that the aggravating factors sufficiently outweighed the mitigating factors and voted for a death sentece on each capital count. The court sentenced Roof to death on Counts 13-21 and 25-33, and life imprisonment without the possibility of release on all other counts. Roof became the first person in U.S history to face both a federal and state death penalty at the same time.

Dylann's personal views

Roof is a white supremacist and neo-nazi which was one of the main reasoning of his actions. He wanted to start a race war and also believed in the white genocide conspiracy theory. The white genocide conspiracy theory is a white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims there is a deliberate plot (often blamed on Jews) to cause the extinction of white people through forced assimilation, mass immigration, or violent genocide. Roof had a website called lastrhodesian.com where he stated his views:

"I was not raised in a racist home or environment. Living in the South, almost every White person has a small amount of racial awareness, simply beause of the numbers of n*groes in this part of the country. But it is a superficial awareness. Growing up, in school, the White and black kids would make racial jokes toward each other, but all they were were jokes. Me and White friends would sometimes would watch things that would make us think that “blacks were the real racists” and other elementary thoughts like this, but there was no real understanding behind it.
The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day. The first website I came to was the Council of Conservative Citizens. There were pages upon pages of these brutal black on White murders. I was in disbelief. At this moment I realized that something was very wrong. How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?
From this point I researched deeper and found out what was happening in Europe. I saw that the same things were happening in England and France, and in all the other Western European countries. Again I found myself in disbelief. As an American we are taught to accept living in the melting pot, and black and other minorities have just as much right to be here as we do, since we are all immigrants. But Europe is the homeland of White people, and in many ways the situation is even worse there. From here I found out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.

Blacks
I think it is is fitting to start off with the group I have the most real life experience with, and the group that is the biggest problem for Americans. Ni**ers are stupid and violent. At the same time they have the capacity to be very slick. Black people view everything through a racial lense. Thats what racial awareness is, its viewing everything that happens through a racial lense. They are always thinking about the fact that they are black. This is part of the reason they get offended so easily, and think that some thing are intended to be racist towards them, even when a White person wouldnt be thinking about race. The other reason is the Jewish agitation of the black race. Black people are racially aware almost from birth, but White people on average dont think about race in their daily lives. And this is our problem. We need to and have to. Say you were to witness a dog being beat by a man. You are almost surely going to feel very sorry for that dog. But then say you were to witness a dog biting a man. You will most likely not feel the same pity you felt for the dog for the man. Why? Because dogs are lower than men. This same analogy applies to black and White relations. Even today, blacks are subconsciously viewed by White people are lower beings. They are held to a lower standard in general. This is why they are able to get away with things like obnoxious behavior in public. Because it is expected of them. Modern history classes instill a subconscious White superiority complex in Whites and an inferiority complex in blacks. This White superiority complex that comes from learning of how we dominated other peoples is also part of the problem I have just mentioned. But of course I dont deny that we are in fact superior. I wish with a passion that ni**ers were treated terribly throughout history by Whites, that every White person had an ancestor who owned slaves, that segregation was an evil an oppressive institution, and so on. Because if it was all it true, it would make it so much easier for me to accept our current situation. But it isnt true. None of it is. We are told to accept what is happening to us because of ancestors wrong doing, but it is all based on historical lies, exaggerations and myths. I have tried endlessly to think of reasons we deserve this, and I have only came back more irritated because there are no reasons. Only a fourth to a third of people in the South owned even one slave. Yet every White person is treated as if they had a slave owning ancestor. This applies to in the states where slavery never existed, as well as people whose families immigrated after slavery was abolished. I have read hundreds of slaves narratives from my state. And almost all of them were positive. One sticks out in my mind where an old ex-slave recounted how the day his mistress died was one of the saddest days of his life. And in many of these narratives the slaves told of how their masters didnt even allowing whipping on his plantation. Segregation was not a bad thing. It was a defensive measure. Segregation did not exist to hold back n*groes. It existed to protect us from them. And I mean that in multiple ways. Not only did it protect us from having to interact with them, and from being physically harmed by them, but it protected us from being brought down to their level. Integration has done nothing but bring Whites down to level of brute animals. The best example of this is obviously our school system. Now White parents are forced to move to the suburbs to send their children to “good schools”. But what constitutes a “good school”? The fact is that how good a school is considered directly corresponds to how White it is. I hate with a passion the whole idea of the suburbs. To me it represents nothing but scared White people running. Running because they are too weak, scared, and brainwashed to fight. Why should we have to flee the cities we created for the security of the suburbs? Why are the suburbs secure in the first place? Because they are White. The pathetic part is that these White people dont even admit to themselves why they are moving. They tell themselves it is for better schools or simply to live in a nicer neighborhood. But it is honestly just a way to escape ni**ers and other minorities. But what about the White people that are left behind? What about the White children who, because of school zoning laws, are forced to go to a school that is 90 percent black? Do we really think that that White kid will be able to go one day without being picked on for being White, or called a “white boy”? And who is fighting for him? Who is fighting for these White people forced by economic circumstances to live among n*groes? No one, but someone has to.
Here I would also like to touch on the idea of a Norhtwest Front. I think this idea is beyond stupid. Why should I for example, give up the beauty and history of my state to go to the Norhthwest? To me the whole idea just parralells the concept of White people running to the suburbs. The whole idea is pathetic and just another way to run from the problem without facing it. Some people feel as though the South is beyond saving, that we have too many blacks here. To this I say look at history. The South had a higher ratio of blacks when we were holding them as slaves. Look at South Africa, and how such a small minority held the black in apartheid for years and years. Speaking of South Africa, if anyone thinks that think will eventually just change for the better, consider how in South Africa they have affirmative action for the black population that makes up 80 percent of the population. It is far from being too late for America or Europe. I believe that even if we made up only 30 percent of the population we could take it back completely. But by no means should we wait any longer to take drastic action.
Anyone who thinks that White and black people look as different as we do on the outside, but are somehow magically the same on the inside, is delusional. How could our faces, skin, hair, and body structure all be different, but our brains be exactly the same? This is the nonsense we are led to believe. N*groes have lower Iqs, lower impulse control, and higher testosterone levels in generals. These three things alone are a recipe for violent behavior. If a scientist publishes a paper on the differences between the races in Western Europe or Americans, he can expect to lose his job. There are personality traits within human families, and within different breeds of cats or dogs, so why not within the races? A horse and a donkey can breed and make a mule, but they are still two completely different animals. Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same. In a modern history class it is always emphasized that, when talking about “bad” things Whites have done in history, they were White. But when we lern about the numerous, almost countless wonderful things Whites have done, it is never pointed out that these people were White. Yet when we learn about anything important done by a black person in history, it is always pointed out repeatedly that they were black. For example when we learn about how George Washington carver was the first ni**er smart enough to open a peanut.
On another subject I want to say this. Many White people feel as though they dont have a unique culture. The reason for this is that White culture is world culture. I dont mean that our culture is made up of other cultures, I mean that our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as though our culture isnt special or unique. Say for example that every business man in the world wore a kimono, that every skyscraper was in the shape of a pagoda, that every door was a sliding one, and that everyone ate every meal with chopsticks. This would probably make a Japanese man feel as though he had no unique traditional culture.
I have noticed a great disdain for race mixing White women within the White nationalists community, bordering on insanity it. These women are victims, and they can be saved. Stop.

Jews
Unlike many White naitonalists, I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European jews are White. In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem. The problem is that Jews look White, and in many cases are White, yet they see themselves as minorities. Just like ni**ers, most jews are always thinking about the fact that they are jewish. The other issue is that they network. If we could somehow turn every jew blue for 24 hours, I think there would be a mass awakening, because people would be able to see plainly what is going on.
I dont pretend to understand why jews do what they do. They are enigma.

Hispanics
Hispanics are obviously a huge problem for Americans. But there are good hispanics and bad hispanics. I remember while watching hispanic television stations, the shows and even the commercials were more White than our own. They have respect for White beauty, and a good portion of hispanics are White. It is a well known fact that White hispanics make up the elite of most hispanics countries. There is good White blood worht saving in Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and even Brasil.
But they are still our enemies.

East Asians
I have great respent for the East Asian races. Even if we were to go extinct they could carry something on. They 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.

Patriotism
I hate the sight of the American flag. Modern American patriotism is an absolute joke. People pretending like they have something to be proud while White people are being murdered daily in the streets. Many veterans believe we owe them something for “protecting our way of life” or “protecting our freedom”. But im not sure what way of life they are talking about. How about we protect the White race and stop fighting for the jews. I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940's American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion. So I dont blame the veterans of any wars up until after Vietnam, because at least they had an American to be proud of and fight for.

An Explanation
To take a saying from a film, “I see all this stuff going on, and I dont see anyone doing anything about it. And it pisses me off.”. To take a saying from my favorite film, “Even if my life is worth less than a speck of dirt, I want to use it for the good of society.”.
I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.
Unfortunately at the time of writing I am in a great hurry and some of my best thoughts, actually many of them have been to be left out and lost forever. But I believe enough great White minds are out there already.
Please forgive any typos, I didnt have time to check it. "