Race War Roof

Says he wanted to start race war by polly mosendz on 6 19 15 at 9 38 am edt police lead suspected shooter dylann roof into the courthouse in shelby north carolina june.

Race war roof. Dylann roof said he wanted to start a race war friends say npr s melissa block talks to new york times reporter frances robles who spoke with friends of dylann roof the suspect in wednesday s. The white nationalist convicted of killing nine people at a historically black church in charleston south carolina believed his prison sentence was irrelevant because he would be freed after a. 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. Dylann roof is believed to have murdered the church congregants for the purpose of starting a race war.

The idea of race war is older than the united states fueling the brutal treatment of native americans and enslaved blacks by white colonists fearful of uprisings. Dylann roof was a regular. In doing so he embodied this ideology one so insidious and pervasive among white. Dylann storm roof born april 3 1994 is an american white supremacist and mass murderer convicted for perpetrating the charleston church shooting on june 17 2015 in the u s.

Dylann roof in the court room at the charleston county judicial. Dylann roof has confessed to the murder of nine people at a south carolina church on wednesday according to officials. State of south carolina. When dylann roof represented himself at his capital trial he was a 22 year old ninth grade dropout diagnosed with the schizophrenia spectrum disorder autism anxiety and depression who believed his sentence didn t matter because white nationalists would free him from prison after an impending race war the filing states.

After he was arrested roof told fbi agents that he wanted the shootings to bring back segregation or perhaps start a race war.