Posted on 06/18/2015 6:25:44 PM PDT by Kaslin
Thanks for letting us know a day after the information would have been useful, guy.
Dylann Roof, the alleged gunman authorities say is responsible for killing nine people in a predominantly black Charleston, South Carolina, church Wednesday night, had been “planning something like that for six months,” according to his roommate.
Dalton Tyler, who said he has known Roof for seven months to one year, said he saw the white, 21-year-old suspect just last week.
“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler said. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
The patches on his jacket in the already famous Facebook photo are symbols of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia, which is what Zimbabwe was known as when it was still ruled by whites. Those patches are common at white-supremacist events according to a source who spoke to the WSJ. “Storm,” his alleged middle name, is also apparently a name frequently used by skinhead types in honor of the Stormfront website. The same Journal article contains this passage describing what Roof was up to in February, which may support the roommate’s claim that he’s had murderous intentions for awhile:
On Feb. 28, he was arrested for drug possession at a Columbia mall, where the report said he was wearing all black and rattling employees at two stores with unusual questions about staffing and operating hours…
[An employee at a shop at the mall] said he wasn’t interested in merchandise but asked sales associates about the mall hours and how many people were in the mall when it closed. “It was a bunch of strange things you would not expect,” she said. “It did make us uncomfortable.”
A few days later, a security guard dropped off a flier with the mall’s tenants displaying Mr. Roof’s picture, she said. They were to be on alert and call security if they saw him in the mall again.
Maybe he was just high at the time and asking disjointed random questions, but when a guy who turns out to be a mass murderer seems curious about how many people there are at the local mall at a particular hour, odds are it’s not because he’s interested in beating the traffic.
How many other people around him had reason to think he might be dangerous? His uncle says the family had no inkling of violence in his character, to the point that Roof’s father evidently felt safe giving him a .45-caliber pistol as a birthday present this year. But that was in April; the mall incident and drug bust happened more than a month earlier, and apparently his roommate had reason to think he had bad intentions. There were signs that something was wrong. Another interesting footnote: The roommate told ABC that Roof’s parents didn’t allow him to take that .45 home with him until just this past week. How come?
Two questions to ponder. One: Why did Roof let the cops take him alive? That’s not unheard of in mass shootings (see, e.g., James Holmes in Aurora) but it’s unusual. Typically when a turd like this resolves to kill a bunch of people, he intends it to be his final act. Was he hoping to target more people or does he plan on using the trial as a soapbox for his views? Two: What to make of that eerie detail about Roof sitting quietly during the Bible study session at the church for an hour before opening fire? Was that him working up the nerve to do it? A strategy to get the victims to lower their guard? Or just his own personal freaky weirdness?
bttt there goes the ‘conservative’ descriptor the left so desperately dreamed of and hoped for. Skinhead.
Sounds like conspiracy—knowing and not reporting. A long jail sentence is in order for this idiot as he has blood on his hands.
Need a drug screen on the guy for every class including prescriptions.
This guy, two quarts of gas, a match, and this playing in the background a high volume:
https://youtu.be/3ScuVQVRYK0#t=36s
Well, maybe skinhead in thought, but certainly more of a moptop in actuality. Maybe the Beatles made him do it.
Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/sunday-review/the-assault-weapon-myth.html?_r=0
“It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.
“In 2012, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle, F.B.I. data shows.
“The continuing focus on assault weapons stems from the media’s obsessive focus on mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle. This, in turn, obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots.
“Annually, 5,000 to 6,000 black men are murdered with guns. Black men amount to only 6 percent of the population. Yet of the 30 Americans on average shot to death each day, half are black males.”
Hey but don’t confuse us with facts: In a nation of 300 million plus (10% of Mexico, gracias Uniparty), another screwball snapped and Val Jar & Co., LTD will try to change a .45 into an “assault rifle” and then—here we go again: anthropomorphize the firearm into a perpetrator.
Democrats: grief ghouls. “Have you no shame?”
Absolutely. Would love to hear the tox report.
It’s amazing that this happened to bump the TPP off the page.
if he “knew” he was going to do this, why not go to the police or to the man’s parents so they wouldn’t let him have the gun?...
I would say the roommate’s silence makes him complicit in this heinous crime.
Was that his middle name from birth? If so, I believe Roof may pre-date the neo-Nazi website. Not saying there's no cultural connection, just that the media may be taking liberties (as per usual).
Absolutely none! That has been the secret of their success since the days of Andrew Jackson.
Can this knucklehead be charged as an accessory or with conspiracy to commit murder? Good grief.
Been gone all day. Do we have any info on his parents yet? The only things I’ve heard are LE went to both parents home and found some racist material at the mom’s.
If the kid’s parents gave him the middle name Storm at birth, then I maintain the acorn didn’t fall far from the tree. I suspect one or both parents held the same views as the kid did, and that this kid internalized those views while growing up. Whereas the parent(s) never acted on extreme racist viewpoints, the kid did. I suspect I’m not far off the mark here.
I also suspect that people who have not until the Obama regime came into office, held any particular racial animus, are now developing such attitudes in reaction to the continuous screams of racism by Blacks, the rioting in cities, the mob mentality in intimidating and attacking Whitey for no good reason other than wreaking havoc and having what they think is a good time while alleviating boredom.
A race war in the making. The moral of the story is that
too many Whites thought hiring a Black President would help smooth over the racial divide. Obama, with his own racial animus bubbling under the surface, has created an atmosphere of the exact opposite. 2016 can’t come soon enough.
All that was necessary for evil to triumph was for Dalton Tyler to do nothing.
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