The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black church.
From Charleston to Charlottesville to Pittsburgh to Poway to DC to El Paso to Buffalo, each of these people was a victim of racists emboldened by replacement conspiracy myths to commit mass murder. They were victims of a subculture of scapegoating, masterfully repurposed by supremacist politics, politicians and shock jocks seeking to retain their power over an inflamed base, at all costs. They were victims of our ancient, obstinate refusal to be our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers.
Families and survivors of Dylann Roof's racist attack on a historically Black Charleston church in 2015 have reached a multimillion dollar settlement rife with symbolism with the DOJ.