Posted on 06/18/2015 2:09:14 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The roommate of the white, 21-year old man who allegedly massacred nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina said Thursday that he thought the suspect had been planning the attack for about six months.
Dalton Tyler told ABC News that he'd known Dylann Storm Roof for about seven months to a year. Tyler told the news outlet that he last saw Roof about a week ago and knew he'd been planning something like the Charleston church attack "for six months."
“He was big into segregation and other stuff,” Tyler told ABC News. “He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
Tyler described Roof as "on and off" with his parents, according to ABC News. Members of Roof's immediate family have not given extensive comment on his alleged crime.
A woman who on Thursday answered a cellphone belonging to Roof's mother, Amelia, told Reuters "We will be doing no interviews ever."
A reporter for the Post And Courier newspaper tweeted that a man who answered the door at Roof's Eastover, South Carolina home declined to speak with reporters and told them get off his property.
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There's going to be a time in the future where he's really going to which he had killed himself. He's not tough enough to protect himself in prison, and I don't think he'll be able to pay the price for protection. I'd say this kid is about to have a short, horrible life. Deservedly so.
Who let them be lied to?
And whose duty is it to try to help them get it right when we can?
Not likely. Unless the killer had given the room mate good reason to believe that he was serious and believable about what he intended to do I doubt that he will be held culpable.
A great many people make idle comments and/or threats about committing a crime or exacting revenge for something or other, but only a very few of those threats are serious and followed through. If all such threats were taken seriously and investigated by LE they wouldn't have very much time to do the more serious work.
If I thought he was serious, I damn well would rat him out - and I'd tell him I was ratting him out, too.
But I don't have a legal duty to do so.
One of the fundamental weaknesses of the law is its arrogance. Its actors now think and act as though the law alone can hold a civil society together. The belief is that "the law" holds that much power. It doesn't claim that it IS the only power holding society together, and it always welcomes outside help, but its claim to superiority over all else does not serve it well.
We still know next to nothing about Waco but the Lame Stream Media ferrets this guy out in less than 24 hours.
That's for sure. I'm on the "arm everybody" side of the spectrum, but that assumes or presupposes a certain degree of care and competence on the part of those armed. I wouldn't gift my own son or daughter a firearm, unless I had sound reason to believe they shared my reverence for life, and I knew from having gone shooting with them, that they handled a firearm with appropriate respect. About the same attitude I have toward gifting them a car. I want to be in the car and watch them drive, and when I think they pay enough attention, have enough courtesy, and have a handle on their anger, then I'll give them permission to drive without me in the car.
“I think I heard he was also caught with Suboxone”
Previous bust which hasn’t gone trial. My understanding is that it was a felony charge. The little 140 pound twerp was about to be a prison pinata and probably felt he had nothing to lose. In retrospect he wasn’t In disguise and probably thought he was gonna die one way or another before he ever saw the inside of a prison. Since it is a capitol murder charge i’m not sure he will ever be see the general population of a prison. Shame, i’d like to think he was someone’s Pinata before they shove the needle in.
Yup. He’ll get his 15 minutes of fame and pay dearly for every minute.
“Can you say accessory?”
Unfortunately, as I understand present law no. But the problem is, where do you draw a line?
And we will meet and overcome those challenges!
I watched them walk him out to the police car. Where is Jack Ruby when you need him?
And he stayed silent. Now 9 people are dead.
“Is he castrated or something?”
He will be once he goes to prison. The brothers are gonna have a lot of fun with this dude.
Dad is going to get nailed for giving him the gun. At the very least Dad will get sued.
” I’d say this kid is about to have a short, horrible life. Deservedly so.”
Agreed.
Nope. Misprision of felony requires a felony in the first place, and six months ago, there wasn't one.
But, anybody who knows a dope smoker (and I'm NOT looking at you, DiogenesLamp) who also possess a firearm, that hasn't turned the felon in to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, has committed misprision of felony (18 USC 4), the underlying firearm possession felony being 18 USC 922(g).
I bet it was similar to the Lanza situation. I can picture this kid being distant and hard to talk to as he sunk into his twisted world. But then he perks up and seems more normal when the conversation turns to guns, wants to spend time with Dad and go shooting, etc. Family thinks hey finally a way to get this kid out his funk and teach him some responsibility. Bad choice.
“He said he wanted to start a civil war. He said he was going to do something like that and then kill himself.”
“Good luck living down that statement of yours.”
Start a civil war or Kill himself?
I
Start a civil war, it may have already begun.
Kill himself, the fuzz will be watching and waiting for
this. So if he dies then they let it happen.
“Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ~ John Adams (Oct 11, 1798)
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