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1. Mass murderer Dylann Roof had a terrifying white supremacist manifesto.
Dylann Roof is the man accused of shooting dead nine African Americans at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Yesterday, a website was found to contain a user by the name of “Dylan Roof” who was in photographs holding large weapons, posing outside a slave plantation and burning the American flag. In the photographs, police say there is pictured a .45 caliber gun – the same weapon allegedly used during the Charleston shooting.
Read more: Wake up America. It’s time to sort your sh*t out.
The website describes how the author was radicalised, their views of different races, and a section titled “an explanation” explicitly mentioning Charleston.
“I have no choice,” the supremacist manifesto reads. “I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. 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.”
