Tag: Dylann Roof

Indian governor calls for removal of Confederate flag

The Indian governor of South Carolina Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state Capitol Monday, less than a week after a 21-year-old white man gunned down nine people at a historic African American church.

Support for the flag to come down from leaders around the state and around the country has been steadily growing in the wake of the attack.

“Today, we are here in a moment of unity in our state, without ill will, to say it is time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds,” Haley said during a news conference attended by Republican senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, along with other state leaders.

Haley called on Monday for South Carolina to do what just a week ago seemed politically impossible. The announcement was met by applause and cheers from those in attendance.

Haley said The flag “does not represent the future of our great state”. Jeb Bush, who ordered the removal of the flag from the Florida statehouse while governor, said he was confident that South Carolina would “do the right thing”.

The MSM is still strangely silent on the shooting in Philidelphia.

Haley is one of two sitting Indian American governors in the United States, the other being fellow Republican Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. She is also the third non-white person to have been elected as governor of a Southern state.

Meanwhile doubts were raised about the authenticity of the shooter’s “manifesto”. It is highly unlikely that a 9th grade dropout somehow attained exceptional writing skills, yet there has been no investigation by the media into the matter.

The two black shooters from West-Philidelphia have not issued a manifesto yet.

Lone shooter caught after church massacre

Dylann Storm Roof, 21, allegedly shot dead nine people in South Carolina last night.

He was pictured in an earlier photograph wearing a jacket incongruously showing both flags of apartheid-era South Africa and one from colonial British-ruled Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

The white gunman has been caught in North Carolina.

The attack came just a day after the New York Times warned that “the main terrorist threat in the United States is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists.”

Two months ago, after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man, Walter Scott, by a white police officer in neighboring North Charleston, major protests occured highlighting racial tensions in the area.

The officer has been charged with murder, and the shooting prompted South Carolina lawmakers to push through a bill helping all police agencies in the state get body cameras. The black pastor was a sponsor of that bill.

It appears that Roof robotically said: “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go”,’ Sylvia Johnson, a church member said.

A five-year-old girl survived the attack after her grandmother told her to play dead. The gunman then fled.

Police launched a massive manhunt for Roof and released surveillance images showing him and his car, warning the public that he was dangerous. He was eventually caught on Thursday morning.

Roof’s uncle, Carson Cowles, told Reuters that his nephew had received a .45 caliber pistol as a birthday present in April. He called the 21-year-old ‘quiet, soft spoken’ and said he recognized him in the photo released by police.

In a photograph of Roof on Facebook, he is seen strangely displaying the flag of apartheid-era South Africa on his jacket. He is also wearing another flag depicting that of British colonial Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe.

Roof also displayed a Confederate flag on his license plate.

Court records show he was charged with a drugs offense in March 2015 and trespassing in April.

Police have since headed to the home of Roof’s mother, Cowles added.

Of the shooting, Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen said: ‘We believe this is a hate crime – that is how we are investigating it.’

On Thursday, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office have launched a hate crime investigation into the mass shooting, ABC reported.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other agencies have joined the investigation, Mullen said.

Obama called the killings ‘senseless’ and said it again highlighted the need for gun control.