Dylann Roof's Videotaped Confession Stuns Courtroom
Source: nbc
Dylann Roof began his videotaped confession with 11 chilling words: "I went to that church in Charleston and I did it."
And then for the next two or three hours, the self-declared white supremacist described to an FBI agent how he gunned down nine black worshipers last year at a historic South Carolina church in a bid to spark a race war.
"What I did is still miniscule to what they're doing to white people every day," Roof insisted at one point.
The recording of Roof was played Friday for the jurors weighing the fate of the 22-year-old for the first time at his federal death penalty trial.
In the video, the FBI could be seen reading Roof his rights and making sure he understood that he was giving a statement without a lawyer present.
Roof did not appear to be under the influence of anything when he made the statement following his arrest on June 18, 2015 in Shelby, North Carolina, FBI investigator Michael Stansbury testified.
And Roof was not sure how many people he killed at the Emanuel AME Church.
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Tommy_Carcetti
(43,181 posts)Can't even begin to explain that one, other than Roof's just a sick, hateful son of a bitch.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)if you pick a fight with a black person and they fight back and winning the fight, it is self defense when you shoot them.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)I hope they lock him up for the rest of his life; and he slowly realizes what a dumb shit he is...everyday, every long, never-ending day, week, month and year.
WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)Maybe not a step.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)nt
NNadir
(33,515 posts)Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)the Arian Brotherhood are salivating over who will get this one. He will be prime property.
brooklynite
(94,519 posts)In the unlikely event he doesn't get the death sentence, he'll be tucked away in a SuperMax prison alone.
dembotoz
(16,802 posts)death has no deterrent value but to see him in a cage might. less glamorous
geomon666
(7,512 posts)He'll need more people like him to make America great again...
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)They_Live
(3,232 posts)since he's had legal experience representing himself.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Only on Death Row can they guarantee one of his fellow inmates won't figure out a way to kill him.
Cha
(297,188 posts)GP.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Devil Child
(2,728 posts)I hope he is found guilty and sentenced to death for his crimes. He is irreparable.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)Nine consecutive life sentences, with no parole.
Let him be nothing, for years and years and years.
Let him be a body in a cell, a number on a register, a name on a file, and a member of the General Population.
Give him years and years and years and years of howling, empty nothing.
It is, after all, what he is.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)But we all know why that charge was not brought.
Don't we?
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)But yes we know well that the only domestic terrorists called domestic terrorists nowadays are of the Islamic variety. Neo-Nazi/Confederates are written off as mentally ill. Nothing to see here folks, move along move along.
truthisfreedom
(23,146 posts)To describe the cold-blooded murder of so many innocent people as 'miniscule' is not the claim of a sane mind. He's been brainwashed.
But be that as it may, the path he's chosen will likely be it's own punishment. Prison will not treat him well.
WhiteTara
(29,704 posts)He knows what he did was wrong.
resistance2016
(86 posts)Sounds like a lot of people I know who think they're poor because they can only afford to go to FOUR NFL games a year.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)He won't last 6 months.