Mr Roof Holding The Confederate Battle Flag

Roof holding the confederate battle flag and a gun.

Mr roof holding the confederate battle flag. Roof the avowed white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners when he opened fire on the emanuel african methodist episcopal church in june 2015 posed with the flag in several photos. Images have surfaced online of mr. Roof he s holding the confederate flag in. The suspected killer is a 21 year old white man.

Back in 2015 in the wake of the white supremacist mass murder committed by dylann roof at mother emanuel church in charleston south carolina then governor nikki haley took the genuinely bold. Dylann roof reportedly accepted the flag as a symbol of white supremacy the belief that white people are better than all others especially black. In the following years especially during the civil rights era the banner became a divisive emblem of white supremacist groups. The battle flag flew atop the south carolina statehouse from 1962 until 2000 when lawmakers agreed after a.

88 t shirt had 88 facebook friends and wrote that number white. The flag is located on state capitol grounds near the statehouse in columbia. Dylann roof spat on and burned the american flag but waved the confederate. Mr roof is seen.

Now formally charged roof s pre shooting activities including holding the battle flag leave no doubt about this being a hate crime. In 2015 when dylann roof killed nine members of a historically black church in charleston south carolina a photo of him holding a confederate flag was posted on his website also featuring his. Since he allegedly shot nine african american worshipers to death at a historic charleston s c church the country has been wrapped in debate about what the old battle flag symbolizes and. He posed for pictures wearing a no.