Dylan Roof Summary

On the evening of June 17 2015, a group of twelve black church members accepted a stranger into their bible study. The stranger sat with the Bible study group for about 45 minutes, and then during the final prayer, when everyone's eyes were closed, he pulled out a gun and started firing. Dylann Roof killed nine of the twelve people present, only three survived. He was convicted of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearms charges. He has just recently been sentenced to death. Roof decided to defend himself and called on no witnesses and did not produce any evidence for his case. He did not even ask jurors to spare his life. The prosecution however called around 38 witnesses, including family and friends

Bang, bang this was the noise the crowd heard in the Methodist Episcopal Church after Dylann Roof fired his firearm. In the article from the New York Times on July 10, 2015 “Background Check Flaw Let Dylann Roof Buy Gun F.B.I Says” was written by Micheal S. Schimidt. Too many people can easily walk into stores that sells gun and get one with minimal wait time.

Judge Richard Gergel formally sentenced Dylann Roof, an openly white supremacist, on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern time. A group of defense attorneys who worked on behalf of Roof stated that by deciding on the death penalty it means that the case will not be over for a “very long time.” The jurors didn’t even bother looking at Roof when they came in with the verdict. Instead the jurors looked in the direction of the victims’ families. Roof, who was looking away from the

On June 17, 2015, nine people were killed while at a prayer meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church of Charleston, South Carolina, one of America’s oldest black churches. Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, opened fire over the congregation after attending the service for approximately an hour. The victims include Rev. Clementa Pinckney, South Carolina’s state senator, and his sister, in addition to five other women and two men. The shooting is considered by most to have been a racially fueled hate crime, as its perpetrator has a history of racism over social media. Immediately before pulling the trigger, Roof was overheard saying, “I have to do it. You rape our women, and you are taking over our country. And you have to

Similar to this theme is the story “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In TKM, Tom Robinson was a man that was found guilty of a crime that he did not even commit. He basically lost the trial and was convicted because he was black. Another case where Joe McKnight’s shooter admitted to being guilty and still was not convicted. In contrary, a case where Rodger Batiste, a black man, killed Shane Vicknair, a white man, and was sentenced to five years. In these couple of sentences alone justice is clearly not on African Americans side.The fact that the roles were switched goes to show that society will do anything in its power to wipe African Americans out. With these examples, it can be seen that there is pure injustice in society, the courts, and everywhere. Nothing has been resolved or fixed in a racism standpoint. Being that Trayvon Martin was a young black kid that looked “suspicious” did him no

There has been a case that has been going on for nineteen moths about a person named Dylann Roof who commuted inhumane act by murdering nine African American church goers due to his racial hatred towards the black community. After a lot of investigation the jury of six whites and three black gave their decision on him last month and he was found guilty of thirty three counts. For this reason the jury decides a death penalty on him even though the victims’ family forgave him. Although, it was certain that the Jury was going to lean toward the death penalty because he didn’t have any witnesses to help him defend and most of all he decided to be a lawyer for himself, which made difficult of proving himself innocent or even reduce the penalty

Any individual with any seed of compassion and humanity will agree, the events that led up to the unwarranted death of any individual, those noted in his article included, are appalling. Subsequent to evaluation of this article, readers are left with an appreciation that the author believes that there is an overwhelming conspiracy, which currently persists, that people of color are at imminent risk of being lynched by a mob. Had this article

Dylann Roof will face the death penalty. Roof is accused of killing nine people during a Bible study on July 17 at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Prosecutors are trying to get Roof the death penalty because he has killed more than two people, and other lives were put into risks. Prosecutors also mentioned that Roof does not feel any remorse for the killings that he committed. Roof also have some federal charges, this includes: hate crimes and obstruction of the practice of religion.

After reading both articles by Mr.Niose and Dr. Chandra. They both used critical thinking. In the article by Mr.Niose he thought critically by saying that after the incident that happened in Charleston many people will discuss that the reason behind racism and gun violence. Mr.Niose is trying to look at it from a different perspective. He mentions that it could be tied with the nation’s culture of ignorance. “Many will correctly blame Roof's actions on America's culture of racism and gun violence, but it's time to realize that such phenomena are directly tied to the nation's culture of ignorance.” He talks about how people will say its racism which could be true, but they need to look at the root cause of racism and ignorance. Mr.Nioise isn’t defending Dylann Roof and not saying what he did is okay but, he is looking at other possibilities like a mental issue that doesn’t have basic notions that humans are supposed to have. As for Dr. Chandra article response to Mr.Niose Dr. Chandra was a more closed off, but thought critically of what he was saying and pointing out. For example, he knows that we are self-centered and therefore we have our beliefs and he also believes that self-centeredness is killing American not anti-intellectualism. He thinks for it to more reasonable we need empathy.

Later he shot nine black people because he felt like he needed to do something about the “crimes” that black people do that are going unnoticed in the media. Dylann said, “Black people are killing white people every day, … and they rape 100 white women a day.” (qtd. In Times Video) Dylann’s negative generalization of black people as people who break the law daily is a stereotype that has been present in America for many

The following piece of work will discuss racism within the criminal justice system by viewing the Black Lives Matter movement, the roles of law enforcement and how that effects citizens, and potential solutions to the problems in the system. Within our criminal justice system, it is evident that there is a problem by the ratio of blacks in prison, and the number of police brutality cases in the country.

The American judicial system is designed to have equal and fair trials. The 14th amendment abides with that and has made it so everyone receives just trials. Today’s society and judicial system have definitely improved from the past in regards to racism, however, in some cases blacks continue to get convicted and charged without solid or any evidence, solely taken on the word of skeptical or influenced witnesses. Yet, in recent years, science and technology have developed and allowed our legal system to exonerate many innocent people. Sadly, in the past, many blameless people suffered the death penalty from these false accusations. Racial bias and prejudice in the American judicial system are displayed in the Scottsboro Boys case, Harper Lee’s

In 2015 there was a racially motivated shooting at a historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina (Horowitz, Corasaniti, and Southall). There was a total of nine victims total that died (Horowitz, Corasaniti, and Southall). Local Church leaders felt that there was no other explanation than racial discrimination (Horowitz, Corasaniti, and Southall). Later investigators ruled the shooting a hate crime fueling the fire on the confederate monument removal.

"We simply cannot say we live in a country that offers equal justice to all Americans when racial disparities plague the system by which our society imposes the ultimate punishment." (Senator Russ Feingold, 2003). It has been proven that death sentencing across the USA is determined by the race of the victim and race of the defendant. In 1990, there was a report from the General Accounting office which concluded that those who murdered whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks. (Focus, 2003) This injustice amongst us are because people are scared and don’t know. They don’t know whether a black man is pulling out a gun, their phone, wallet, etc. So just to remain safe, they retaliate by killing our men. Society has grown to function on the fear of black men. Capitalism and the imprisonment of black people have become profitable. They’ve made a big business to just imprison black men. Black men are inheritably a threat to the capitalist structure of America, it protects their money, their politics, and their society.

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which," a quote seen in the political satire, Animal Farm. This novella, by George Orwell, symbolizes the Russian Revolution by using characters that are allegorical to leaders and followers during that time. Numerous animals reside on Animal Farm and expect life to be exceptional without their former farm owner, Mr. Jones; however, they were incorrect, and the totalitarianism creates a tragic misfortune of chaos and exploitation. Animal Farm includes many leaders and followers, such as Napoleon and Boxer, causing corruption and manipulation due to Napoleon's violent tactics and Boxer's obedient lifestyle.