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Roof’s Manifesto Details Racist Motivations Behind Attack

HeadlineJun 22, 2015

A website surfaced Saturday showing photographs of the white shooter, Dylann Roof, posing with the Confederate flag. The website features a manifesto detailing his racist motivations. Roof wrote in part: “I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”

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