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| Dylann Storm Roof: 'Manifesto' appears on website showing new pictures of Charleston gunman | Dylann Storm Roof: 'Manifesto' appears on website showing new pictures of Charleston gunman |
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| New images have emerged that appear to show Dylann Roof, the young man charged murder of the shooting dead of nine black people, along with a 2,000-word document that may be his manifesto. | New images have emerged that appear to show Dylann Roof, the young man charged murder of the shooting dead of nine black people, along with a 2,000-word document that may be his manifesto. |
| The images, along with a document that some believe is Mr Roof’s own writing, were posted on to a Reddit online forum after being found at LastRhodesian.com. One report said the domain name was registered in February under the name Dylann Roof. | The images, along with a document that some believe is Mr Roof’s own writing, were posted on to a Reddit online forum after being found at LastRhodesian.com. One report said the domain name was registered in February under the name Dylann Roof. |
| An image posted on Facebook page shows the young man wearing a green jacket, bearing the flags of the former Rhodesia and Apartheid-era South Africa. Both counties featured white minority governments that ruled black majorities. | An image posted on Facebook page shows the young man wearing a green jacket, bearing the flags of the former Rhodesia and Apartheid-era South Africa. Both counties featured white minority governments that ruled black majorities. |
| The images that emerged on Saturday show Mr Roof posing at Confederate civil war monuments, burning an American flag, and a picture of a handgun with bullets. Another picture shows Mr Roof on a beach where into the sand has been written the number 1488, a figure often associated with neo-Nazi culture. In several he can be seen standing at the sites of former slave plantations. | |
| It is not clear whether the words written on the website were penned by Mr Roof himself or whether he copied them from elsewhere. It is not signed by anyone. It is also possible the document is hoax, or a dark joke. Indeed, the document ends: “Please forgive any typos, I didnt (sic) have time to check it” | It is not clear whether the words written on the website were penned by Mr Roof himself or whether he copied them from elsewhere. It is not signed by anyone. It is also possible the document is hoax, or a dark joke. Indeed, the document ends: “Please forgive any typos, I didnt (sic) have time to check it” |
| The Charleston County Sheriff's Office and the Columbia office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not immediately respond to calls about the online document. The FBI's national office also did not respond to calls. CNN said the FBI was working to try and authenticate it. | |
| Mr Roof posing next to a 1488 symbol - often associated with neo-Nazi culture | Mr Roof posing next to a 1488 symbol - often associated with neo-Nazi culture |
| If the document is genuine, then it would provide a crucial insight into Mr Roof's thinking and what drove him. At one point it says: "Our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as though our culture isnt (sic) special or unique. | If the document is genuine, then it would provide a crucial insight into Mr Roof's thinking and what drove him. At one point it says: "Our culture has been adopted by everyone in the world. This makes us feel as though our culture isnt (sic) special or unique. |
| "Say for example that every business man in the world wore a kimono, that every skyscraper was in the shape of a pagoda, that every door was a sliding one, and that everyone ate every meal with chopsticks. This would probably make a Japanese man feel as though he had no unique traditional culture." | "Say for example that every business man in the world wore a kimono, that every skyscraper was in the shape of a pagoda, that every door was a sliding one, and that everyone ate every meal with chopsticks. This would probably make a Japanese man feel as though he had no unique traditional culture." |
| A section of the 'manifesto' published on the website | A section of the 'manifesto' published on the website |
| The document states: “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was.” | The document states: “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was.” |
| Referring to the unnarmed black Florida teenager who was shot dead by a white neighour, George Zimmerman, it adds: “It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right.” | Referring to the unnarmed black Florida teenager who was shot dead by a white neighour, George Zimmerman, it adds: “It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right.” |
| Large swathes of the document refer to Black, Hispanic and Jewish people, something in racist terms, sometimes not. | Large swathes of the document refer to Black, Hispanic and Jewish people, something in racist terms, sometimes not. |
| The document signs off by outlining what some are saying is a call to arms. | The document signs off by outlining what some are saying is a call to arms. |
| “I have no choice. 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," it says. | “I have no choice. 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," it says. |
| “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.” | “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.” |