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Report akabula June 18, 2015 8:33 AM BST
Declared a hate crime.
Report polybot June 18, 2015 9:17 AM BST
declared a hate crime suspiciously early
Report Burton-Brewers June 18, 2015 9:22 AM BST
1.01 there will be a press conference by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson the Imam's of the USA.
Report polybot June 18, 2015 9:22 AM BST
fort hood shooting still considered to be "workplace violence" 6 years later
Report polybot June 18, 2015 9:26 AM BST
that's got that pesky embarrassing Dolezal story off the headlines
Report brendanuk1 June 18, 2015 9:30 AM BST
lots of sympathy on this thread. Forum is really fooked Plain
Report polybot June 18, 2015 9:56 AM BST
brendan's 5 hail marys and 10 RIPs should patch things right up, victims families are definitely looking to the betfair forum to pray their lost back to life.
Report Burton-Brewers June 18, 2015 10:01 AM BST
I'm sympathetic brendan but those 2 wind me up
Report polybot June 18, 2015 10:08 AM BST
local police have just been informed of the concerns of brendan on the betfair forum, have suspended any meaningful  investigation and will instead be composing sad poems and lighting candles. all conclusions and statements will be handled by senior obama adviser al sharpton.
Report Foinavon June 18, 2015 10:43 AM BST
It's sickening. The veneer of civilisation is just that, a veneer.
Report Vubiant June 18, 2015 11:27 AM BST
An appalling act surely.
I find the term 'hate crime' intriguing.  While there might be some small scale criminal acts where hate is not a necessary factor e.g. shoplifting from a large store, pretty much all violent crime is motivated by hate of a sort . I wonder what is the criterion for following the PC brigade in designating an act as a hate crime. Does it only apply where there is an ostensible race element present?
Of course much palpable hatred does not lead to any crime at all....unless we're talking about 'thought crime'.Plain
Report The Leopard June 18, 2015 12:09 PM BST
Charleston Police Chief : "We consider this act as not acceptable in any way"

Very strange he has to say that......you would have thought that was obvious.
Report The Leopard June 18, 2015 12:28 PM BST
Shooter was very angry..... what could be the reason for that?
Report Mr Eboue June 18, 2015 12:30 PM BST
BBC headline

"Nine people are killed in a shooting described as a 'hate crime' at an African-American church in Charleston, with A WHITE SUSPECT STILL AT LARGE."

I can't ever remember them saying ''with a black suspect still at large''.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker June 18, 2015 12:56 PM BST
At least we have the proper definiton of 'hate', he murdered 9 people.

Not called them names on an internet forum, put pigs heads on their  doorsteps, or called them 'yids'.
Report anfeild June 18, 2015 1:06 PM BST
Seems to be these type's of mass shootings ever four five months. With guns so readily available and in some states the checks to get them are very lax. These shootings will continue until there is a change in the gun laws. That's not going to happen as they fund a lot of the politic system.
Report Wesdag June 18, 2015 2:07 PM BST
Probably explains his motivation Mr E so the description is relevant in this case.
Report The Leopard June 18, 2015 3:23 PM BST
More likely to be mentally ill or taking revenge for something.
Report YOMOMMA June 18, 2015 3:28 PM BST
or inebriated.
Report brendanuk1 June 18, 2015 4:58 PM BST
Mr. Roof’s Facebook profile picture shows him wearing a jacket decorated with the flags of two former white supremacist regimes, in apartheid-era South Africa and in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

The gunman walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after 8 p.m., and the first call to police came shortly after 9 p.m. Among the dead was the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, pastor of the church, who was also a state senator.

Sylvia Johnson, a cousin of Mr. Pinckney, told NBC News that she had spoken with a survivor of the shooting who told her the gunman reloaded five times. The survivor, she said, told her that the gunman had entered the church and asked for the pastor. Then he sat next to Mr. Pinckney during the Bible study before opening fire.

“I have to do it,” the gunman was quoted as saying. “You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting.html
Report Wesdag June 18, 2015 5:06 PM BST
Will be considered a hero to some on here.
Report Burton-Brewers June 18, 2015 5:19 PM BST
no surely you would name them if you thought that
Report Ibrahima Sonko June 18, 2015 5:23 PM BST
Disgusting thing to say wes
Report Wesdag June 18, 2015 5:28 PM BST
May be disgusting, but I'm pretty sure it's true.
Report alun2005 June 18, 2015 6:06 PM BST
Anyone who thinks this (or any) loony gun-nutter is a hero is ret@rded.
Report casemoney June 18, 2015 6:27 PM BST
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-33187779

The top of his head looks too wide IMO
Report Ramruma June 18, 2015 6:43 PM BST
The killer's parents gave him a gun for his birthday. What could possibly go wrong?
Report akabula June 18, 2015 6:43 PM BST
Name names Wesdag. Nobody will think him anything but a sick individual.
I think you are getting mixed up with people questioning how certain crimes are reported and the actual crime.
Report The Leopard June 18, 2015 9:32 PM BST
tt
Report The Leopard June 18, 2015 10:05 PM BST
State Senator was why he was there.
Report Just Checking June 18, 2015 10:08 PM BST
I clicked on a link to a US newpaper to read what it said, the autoamatic related advertising for articles and products I might be interested in was .. ? Gun reviews, best guns 2015, what gun to buy etc Sad.
Report bigH June 18, 2015 10:09 PM BST
state senator was also the church pastor

the same person
Report Just Checking June 18, 2015 10:10 PM BST
If our lunatics and chavs were knee deep in guns, I'd think it would be pretty scary here too...
Report spellingandgrammarchecker June 18, 2015 11:16 PM BST
I see Wesdaq is trolling again.
Report brendanuk1 June 19, 2015 9:15 AM BST
obviously a sliding scale from casual racism, calling names, thinking man who shoots nine blacks is a hero, to shooting nine blacks in a church themselves.
Report morpteh mackem June 19, 2015 9:31 AM BST
don't want to be flippant but he looks like gareth keenans( from the office ) younger brother. odd looking person.
Report Mikael D'Haguenet June 19, 2015 9:36 AM BST
Interesting story but would have been better if perp was a Muzzie imo.
Report Facts June 19, 2015 10:07 AM BST
Shameful comment
Report Mikael D'Haguenet June 19, 2015 10:19 AM BST
Sorry, I'll change it.

Interesting story but would have been funnier if perp was a Muzzie imo.
Report Ramruma June 19, 2015 10:31 AM BST
Bizarre from start to finish. The murderer's parents gave him the gun for his birthday two months ago, and this twerp with a mediaeval-chic haircut rages against Black gangsters but then shoots up a church, and Black rapists, but most of his victims are women. This isn't a hate crime: it's what happens when you arm a complete fruitloop.
Report brendanuk1 June 19, 2015 11:39 AM BST
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http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/kb2h42/charleston-church-shooting

worth a watch
Report mobo June 19, 2015 11:50 AM BST
Druggie
Report akabula June 19, 2015 10:43 PM BST
I hope they have the death penalty in that state.
Report polybot June 20, 2015 5:03 AM BST
killer was a Suboxone user, but no one looking into the massive pharma problem linked not only to most of these mass shootings but to misery throughout the country. as for illegal drugs, they have been granted urban chic status so are not considered problematic

over a thousand shootings in detroit this year but no jon stewart sad special on that obama's story

years of relentless race baiting and divisiveness based largely on fake narratives and apartied policies and the result is the this trend in racially targeted killing.

then as people become more fearful, more buy guns, and the problem gets even worse.

but as has been asked already, why would this kid drive for hours to a prayer group to kill harmless old christian ladies?
Report YOMOMMA June 20, 2015 11:08 PM BST
Read some articles today on this Roof chap, what an evil man. They should put him down and put him out of his misery. Why would his dad give a 21 year old, unemployed, high school drop out a gun. Absolute mess!
Report Ibrahima Sonko June 20, 2015 11:13 PM BST
I dont think parents gave him a gun, he bought the with money from his birthday. I maybe wrong but that is what his friend said in a report.

But deeper down for him to be like he was his family must be part of it.

The jacket with flags is awful, if you posted that picture in the uk you would be strung up.
Report YOMOMMA June 20, 2015 11:23 PM BST
I read he was given a gun as a gift.

He is an introvert, but Roof also appears to have a history of racism and drug abuse – and a family that reportedly gave him a gun as a gift.
Report Ibrahima Sonko June 20, 2015 11:27 PM BST
Doesnt really matter how he got the gun, probably unusual for a teenager not to have a gun in the good old U S
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