Dylann Roof's Videotaped Confession Stuns Courtroom

[WhiteTara]

Source: nbc

Dylann Roof began his videotaped confession with 11 chilling words: "I went to that church in Charleston and I did it."

And then for the next two or three hours, the self-declared white supremacist described to an FBI agent how he gunned down nine black worshipers last year at a historic South Carolina church in a bid to spark a race war.

"What I did is still miniscule to what they're doing to white people every day," Roof insisted at one point.

The recording of Roof was played Friday for the jurors weighing the fate of the 22-year-old for the first time at his federal death penalty trial.

In the video, the FBI could be seen reading Roof his rights and making sure he understood that he was giving a statement without a lawyer present.

Roof did not appear to be under the influence of anything when he made the statement following his arrest on June 18, 2015 in Shelby, North Carolina, FBI investigator Michael Stansbury testified.

And Roof was not sure how many people he killed at the Emanuel AME Church.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dylann-roof-s-videotaped-confessions-stuns-courtroom-n694036

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. George Zimmerman shoots Trayvon Martin dead, and that somehow justified this in Roof's mind?

Can't even begin to explain that one, other than Roof's just a sick, hateful son of a bitch.

[mercuryblues]

2. Don't you know

if you pick a fight with a black person and they fight back and winning the fight, it is self defense when you shoot them.

[C Moon]

3. Probably thinks he's going to be seen as a hero.

I hope they lock him up for the rest of his life; and he slowly realizes what a dumb shit he is...everyday, every long, never-ending day, week, month and year.

[WhiteTara]

4. He is a step above animal.

Maybe not a step.

[YoungDemCA]

15. Don't you dare insult animals like that!

nt

[C Moon]

21. :D

[NNadir]

20. He can rightly expect a position in the Trump administration. They love Nazis. n/t

[Runningdawg]

5. In prisons all over the country

the Arian Brotherhood are salivating over who will get this one. He will be prime property.

[brooklynite]

6. Nope...

In the unlikely event he doesn't get the death sentence, he'll be tucked away in a SuperMax prison alone.

[dembotoz]

9. part of me would like to have him on web tv. in his cage 24/7

death has no deterrent value but to see him in a cage might. less glamorous

[geomon666]

7. Will President Trump pardon this brave alt-right soldier?

He'll need more people like him to make America great again...

[Dopers_Greed]

8. I see a cabinet appointment imminent

[They_Live]

10. Could be Trump's Supreme Court pick

since he's had legal experience representing himself.

[jmowreader]

11. They're going to have to house him on Death Row even if he only gets LWOP

Only on Death Row can they guarantee one of his fellow inmates won't figure out a way to kill him.

[Cha]

22. Right.. a stupid fuck like that wouldn't last too long in

GP.

[Sunlei]

12. confederate flag gang member

[Devil Child]

13. Roof is a domestic terrorist

I hope he is found guilty and sentenced to death for his crimes. He is irreparable.

[hatrack]

14. No. He wants to be a "martyr" to the Stars and Bars. Don't give him that option.

Nine consecutive life sentences, with no parole.

Let him be nothing, for years and years and years.

Let him be a body in a cell, a number on a register, a name on a file, and a member of the General Population.

Give him years and years and years and years of howling, empty nothing.

It is, after all, what he is.

[alphafemale]

16. He should have been charged with terrorism. Wanting to start a race certainly meets the definition;

But we all know why that charge was not brought.

Don't we?

[Devil Child]

18. Damn right he should've

But yes we know well that the only domestic terrorists called domestic terrorists nowadays are of the Islamic variety. Neo-Nazi/Confederates are written off as mentally ill. Nothing to see here folks, move along move along.

[truthisfreedom]

17. He's not sane.

To describe the cold-blooded murder of so many innocent people as 'miniscule' is not the claim of a sane mind. He's been brainwashed.

But be that as it may, the path he's chosen will likely be it's own punishment. Prison will not treat him well.

[WhiteTara]

19. He is legally sane.

He knows what he did was wrong.

[resistance2016]

23. "What I did is still miniscule to what they're doing to white people every day"

Sounds like a lot of people I know who think they're poor because they can only afford to go to FOUR NFL games a year.

[roamer65]

24. Throw him into the general population on life in prison, no parole.

He won't last 6 months.