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
Did you know that unarmed black men are seven times more likely to die than white men? Racism is as old as human society itself. As long as human beings have been around, people have always seemed to have hated or feared people with a different skin color. Racism is just a part of the human nature. Trayvon Benjamin Martin was just 17 when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, in Sanford, Florida on February 2012. The murder of Trayvon Martin affected many people. The death of Martin was just the first of several deaths where a white person killed a black innocent person. Since the deaths weren’t stopping the #BlackLivesMatter movement began.
Dylan and Eric were two very disturbed boys. Dylan Klebold was considered depressed, detectives found a journal of his that had considerably dark things written inside. “People are so unaware. . . . well, Ignorance is bliss I guess. . . . that would explain my depression.” A lot of misinformation was circulated and treated as facts before anyone had seen the diary themselves. It was nearly impossible to decipher truth from fiction; like many other aspects of this tragedy, figuring everything out would take years. Their diaries were found only a couple of days after the shootings in thorough searches of the boys' houses and lockers.
that he had to get surgery and was hospitalized for five days. After that he decided to claim a lawsuit against the school district. His winning of the case send a message to schools everywhere about how LGBTQ bullying cannot be ignored.
Whether allowing Attorney General Eric Holder to dropped charges against the New Black Panther Party for intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place in 2009, to inflammatory comments made during the Trayvon Martin case and the Michael Brown shooting, Obama is always sure to let his true ideology shine through.
On June 17, 2015 a tragedy occurred at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of the oldest churches in South Carolina. Shooter, 21 year old Dylan Roof had attended a prayer meeting for one hour before opening fire. Nine people died that day. Roof was an uneducated white supremacist who had dropped out of high school in 2010 and had been previously arrested for drug
Roof was first indicted by a Charleston County grand jury on nine state counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder and a firearms charge. Federal charges filed against Roof include 12 violations of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and 12 violations of the Church Arson Prevention Act of 1996. In addition, he is facing nine charges of illegally using a firearm to commit murder.
Shah, K., Hanna, J., Shoichet, C. E., & Savidge, M. (2017, January 10). Dylann roof jury: Death
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.
May 23, 2014, mass murderer, Elliot Rodger, killed six people and injured thirteen others. This mass murder occurred in Isla Vista, California near University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the ten general campuses of the University of California system.
Case Summary. The Oklahoma City Bomber: Timothy McVeigh. Mass murderer, Timothy McVeigh committed the largest crime involving mass murder in the history of America by the Oklahoma City Bombing that took the lives of a total of 168 people. During the Spring of April in 1995, A rental truck from Ryder drove into a federal building parking lot known as Alfred P. Murrah.
Everyone has heard of the story about the case of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. If there are a few who have not, Trayvon Martin was a young seventeen year old boy. At the time he was not doing well in school. It was his third suspension during the school year and Trayvon’s He was shot by a neighborhood watch man, named George Zimmerman. Zimmerman claimed to feel threatened by the young teen, so he felt the necessity to shoot Trayvon Martin as a self-defense. After many months of court trials Zimmerman was finally able to walk the streets freely.
Dylan Roof's actions in South Carolina should be regarded as an act of terrorism. The acts themselves were not only planned to install fear into the public but, to create a greater divide between races. In the months leading up to the attacks Dylan increasingly withdrew from society and started to adopt more and more radical behavior. A blog he ran stated that one of the purposes of the attack was to start a race war. In addition, Charleston was picked for the target city because it had one of the highest ratios of African Americans to Whites. The attack alone may not be a form of domestic terrorism however, the motives behind the attack certainly push it into that category.
The article commenced with reminding the readers of Charleston church, and the 22 year old shooter Dylann Roof who the article focuses on because he is defending himself in his trial because he didn’t want the attorneys to present to embarrassing evidence about him. Sources say in the article that Roof didn’t want evidence about his mental illness to come to the court. Roof also gave a speech in which he declared his sanity and that he doesn’t regret anything.
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.
Timothy James McVeigh was an American terrorist who was executed for bombing Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City this incident is known as the Oklahoma City bombing, the attack killed 168 people and injured over 600. His motive was to inspire a revolt against the federal government. He was charged with eleven federal offenses and sentenced to death. He was sentenced to death Four years after his horrible act while most convict receive a minimum of 15 years to be sentenced to death. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001. I agree with the verdict because the families and friends of the victims in this incident wanted Timothy McVeigh dead for the immense suffering