17 Jun 2015 Jahr - Charleston church shooting

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AKA: Charleston church massacre

A mass shooting in which nine African Americans (including the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney) were killed during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. Three victims survived. This church is one of the oldest black churches in the United States, and it has long been a center for organizing related to civil rights. The church has played an important role in the history of South Carolina, including the slavery era and Reconstruction, the civil rights movement, and Black Lives Matter. Founded in 1816, this is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South, often referred to as "Mother Emanuel". The AME Church was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1814 as the first independent black denomination. It is the oldest historically black congregation south of Baltimore.

The morning after the attack, police arrested Dylann Roof in Shelby, North Carolina; the 21-year-old white supremacist had attended the Bible study before shooting. He was found to have targeted members of this church because of its history and stature. Roof was found competent to stand trial in federal court and In December 2016 he was convicted of 33 federal hate crime and murder charges.

Roof espoused racial hatred in both a website manifesto published before the shooting, and a journal written from jail afterward. Roof posted photos on his website with emblems associated with white supremacy and with the Confederate battle flag. The shooting triggered debate on modern display of the flag and other memorialization of the Confederacy. Following these murders, the South Carolina General Assembly voted to remove the flag from State Capitol grounds.

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