"In an interview with NBC, a cousin of Pinckney said she spoke with a survivor, who reported that the suspect had reloaded his gun five times. When the survivor's son tried to talk him out of shooting more, he replied, 'I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go.'
Cornell William Brooks, the president and CEO of the NAACP as well as an African Methodist Episcopal minister, released a statement on Thursday in which he expressed outrage about the 'mass hate crime.'... 'There is no greater coward than a criminal who enters a house of God and slaughters innocent people engaged in the study of scripture.'
In a Facebook profile photo, Roof appears to be wearing a jacket affixed with patches representing apartheid-era South Africa and the unrecognized, white-dominated state of Rhodesia -- both potent symbols of white supremacy."
Snippets from the Center