and hateful of blacks. they said roof hoped to start a race war when he walked into the church in charleston on june 17, 2015. he prayed with the bible study group for nearly an hour before removing a .45 caliber glock handgun and fatally shooting nine people. evidence presented by prosecutors include this video showing roof shooting target practice and parts of a 2,000-word manifesto calling black people stupid, inferior to whites and violent. he says the trayvon martin case triggered his decision to kill. saying no skin heads, no real kkk are taking action. someone must. i guess that has to be me. the first witness brought to the stand was felicia sanders. a shooting survivor forced to take a break from accounting her gut wrenching testimony. the last witness polly shepherd describing how she hid under a table praying as bullet casings
he was prepared to kill himself, he didn t when he saw no flashing lights. in the video confession he laughs occasionally and when told he killed nine people he appears shocked. there wasn t even nine people there, are you guys lying to me? no, we re not. he also wrote a two thousand word statement with photos and posted it online the afternoon of the shooting. in it roof said, he thought black people were stupid and quote, inferior to whites and violent. he goes on to say, we have no skin heads, 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. charged with 33 federal counts, including hate crimes, roof s defense team has conceded that he committed the slayings and instead focused on trying to spare him the death penalty. i can tell you on that final note, his defense plans to offer very little argument to the account of what took place on
no, we re not. reporter: dylann roof also wrote a 2,000 word statement. in it roof said he thought black people were stupid and, quote, inferior to whites and violent. he goes on to say, we have no skin heads, 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. charged with 33 federal counts including hate crimes, roof s defense team has conceded that he committed the slayings and instead focussed on trying to spare him the death penalty. that last part of the piece there meant to answer that question that we ve heard here in the community, if there is a taped confession, why is this trial even happening? well the defense clearly hoping to save their client s life. they offered a plea deal. the government declining that. so at this point it s not a matter if there s a conviction but when there s a conviction
of look incredulous. like they couldn t believe it, and they would tell jokes, and say we can t stop what we re doing because we can t let the terrorists win in a joking way, and say this was more serious than they understood and they would get up and leave and walk away. and we started walking away ourselves. other things that were not so pleasant, the very first thing we saw, we started walking toward the scene of things to help get our young friend, three or four skin heads, like bouncing off each other with excitement. they seemed to be thrilled with the situation. they were keen for the violence to come, but that was the exception. most people, everybody saw people locking arms, and that was a kind of good thing to see. or people just stricken with grief. but there wasn t that kind of,
choose. why pick some and not all of it? she wants to be uh nowing. i will defend her not defend her defend her, but you pointed out that she had recently converted to islam. why is she doing this? aren t recent converts pretty devout? because they are trying to be annoying. if you live in the western world you personsed freedom. to go to an archaic it is to bother people. it is like when we are teenagers and we are punk rockers rockers and skin heads. we are trying to freak people out. she is a spoiled brat. flight attendants don t want to serve us food that didn t leave the country. i believe it cost them $9. go, live in saint martin.