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Today
2:15 PDT: The President delivers remarks at the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, California
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Morning everyone.
Archive for June 18th, 2015
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Early Bird Rise and Shine
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Charleston
As I said on the Tweet Machine, I wasn’t going to post this ‘On This Day’ photo because of the horror of Charleston, but then…. it’s imagery like this, of our wonderful *black* First Couple, that drives the bigots insane.
So, **** them:
Our President.
Our First Lady.
Endless love for them.
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MUST READ: Remembering the #CharlestonShooting victims (fuller stories on each person) washingtonpost.com/graphics/natio…
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2015Charleston
The faces
I weep
I cradle my wife
I cradle my kids
I have no words
I am lost
In an ocean of hate http://t.co/gh7qoEbQks
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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) June 19, 2015****
No hoodies
No toy guns
No breathing
No listening to music at a gas station
No asking for help after a car accident
No praying at church
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LEFT (@LeftSentThis) June 18, 2015A protective hand and a bulletproof vest for the mass murderer.
A murderous choke-hold for the cigarette seller. http://t.co/Lb8Ja4z5zZ
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2015****
America's "well-regulated militia" #DylannRoof #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/qcZBaovP8P
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The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) June 18, 2015Susie Jackson, 87, oldest victim of #CharlestonShooting
She must surely have thought, in 2015, those days were gone http://t.co/Q3ZT6fDtRh
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2015****
Why when a White racist commits acts of hatred against Blacks, why is it the Black race is always asked to explain it?
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Michael Hargrove (@MichaelHargrov1) June 18, 2015America
2015
And still we lose our brothers + sisters to hate
Tonight, I hug my black son + daughter even closer http://t.co/ANmJcMVAgC
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TheObamaCAT (@TheObamaCat) June 18, 2015****
Cynthia
Susie
Ethel
DePayne
Clementa
Tywanza
Daniel
Sharonda
Myra
#CharlestonShooting
Rest in peace. http://t.co/2tqYE6rKev
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2015****
Tone deaf: Bernie Sanders holding loud pension rally yards away from #CharlestonShooting prayer circle that starts at noon
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Matt Laslo (@MattLaslo) June 18, 2015'Bernie Sanders has consistently voted against gun restrictions... opposed background checks'
mic.com/articles/12098… http://t.co/TEdrpU9rwa
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 19, 2015****
A rare honest voice:
As Americans we must stand together against domestic terrorism fueled by an ideology of hate.
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Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 18, 2015****
She’s since deleted her account.
We’ll wait to see if the ever ethical Miami Herald …. 🙄 …. deletes her as a contributor:
Real tweet from @MiamiHerald columnist @AJDelgado13 http://t.co/TbJVJlS3g8
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2015****
I gotta get to work, but one quick thing before I go: We don't teach the true history of white supremacy in this country.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015We call Jim Crow "segregation" as if it was about lunch counters and movie theaters, not lynching and disfranchisement.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015****
We talk about lynching as if it were lawlessness in the night. Lynch law was THE law.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015We teach the Civil War, but not the collapse of Reconstruction. We teach the bus boycott but not the 80 years that went before.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015****
We teach about colored water fountains but not black children executed by the state for imaginary crimes.
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015Teach the young people you know about white supremacy and how to fight it. Because their schools won't. studentactivism.net/2015/06/18/how…
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Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) June 18, 2015****
All of this. This is not just for white people who pass down racism to their future generations. This is for white people who stay silent in the face of white supremacy. Racism and white supremacy is not for Black people to fix. It is on YOU. When that father, mother, aunt, uncle, nephew, niece, cousin, grandparents spew racist rhetoric, makes racist jokes, uses derogatory words to describe black people, promotes negative stereotypes of black people and laughs it off as just a joke and you stay silent, you condone it. This is serious. It is about people’s lives. Do not stay silent
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Fellow white ppl, today is the day to look at your white friends and family in the eye and say "Black lives matter."
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2015Yesterday was the day, too. But if you aren't already having this convo, start now.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2015****
Don't be cowards. You risk what, criticism? An argument? We are talking about black people's lives at stake.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2015I will be telling my 6yo white son what happened last night on our way to camp this morning and then I will tell him that black lives matter
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2015****
I'm not saying this for praise but just for you to know that I think white kids should be in convo now. Bc you know black kids are.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2015A 5yo black girl survived last night by playing dead. Surely my 6yo white son can survive a conversation about why she matters.
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Jessica Luther (@scATX) June 18, 2015****
if you read anything about the #CharlestonShooting, let it be this piece on who the victims of the shooting were: buzzfeed.com/jessicasimeone…
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andrea (@zevallos_andrea) June 18, 2015IMPORTANT READ: Coroner names 9 slain in downtown #CharlestonShooting postandcourier.com/article/201506…
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2015****
#CharlestonShooting victims include "brilliant" pastor, recent college grad: cbsn.ws/1JXhUw5 http://t.co/TynN76GAIL
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CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) June 18, 2015I'm not feeling these Je Suis tweets. The SC victims were black folk in prayer and bible study. They weren't drawing race-baiting cartoons.
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Aniyar Uoke (@eclecticbrotha) June 18, 2015****
Proof once again that on some important issues, Justice Roberts is a fool
2 years ago John Roberts overturned heart of Voting Rights Act because he said "things have changed dramatically" in the South
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Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 18, 2015Since PBO's election Republicans have screamed it's time to 'take our country back'
No, Dylann Roof didn't act alone http://t.co/QBw7775d56
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2015****
Look at the smirk on his face. This is what the face of terrorism looks like
Dylann Roof, suspected gunman in SC church massacre, escorted from Shelby, NC, Police station en route to court. http://t.co/JslPeyenJh
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ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2015MORE: Roommate: Alleged Charleston church gunman “was big into segregation and ... wanted to start a civil war" -- abcn.ws/1K11nWB
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ABC News (@ABC) June 18, 2015****
Truth
Stop using some ambiguous mental illness to justify white men who are terrorists. Racism and entitlement aren't mental illnesses.
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Queen Mikayla (@mikaylaesthetic) June 18, 2015Media: lol we don't know why he did it
Dylann Roof: I did it because I hate black people
Media: lol we don't know why he did it
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Queen Mikayla (@mikaylaesthetic) June 18, 2015****
Attorney General Loretta Lynch speaks on Charleston, S.C. shooting
youtube.com/watch?v=hDlpVF…
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) June 18, 2015Deny voting rights, healthcare, equality, dignity. Fly the confederate flag over state buildings. Purchase a clue, @nikkihaley
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meta (@metaquest) June 18, 2015****
Birmingham, AL
Oak Creek, WI
Overland Park, KS
Charleston, SC
Attacks on houses of worship are a STAPLE of white supremacist terrorism.
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Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) June 18, 2015How Charleston's Emanuel AME Church triggered white southern militarism bit.ly/1d4bTiL http://t.co/uX79c7O2ox
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) June 18, 2015****
Sen. Clementa Pinckney's desk in the state Senate chamber is covered in a black drape, with a single rose. http://t.co/tkH6NljOHy
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Robert Kittle (@RobertKittle) June 18, 2015Reverend Clementa Pinckney was the youngest senator in South Carolina's history ti.me/1LkPdXn
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TIME.com (@TIME) June 18, 2015****
This devil killed 9 Black people and you're worried about how Black people are gonna react? Fuck you.
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#WeWillShootBack (@SankofaBrown) June 18, 2015In the belief that every moment of joy is a rebellion and that every bit of collective work is a revolution twitter.com/theandregeorge…
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W.E.B.B.I.E DuBois (@fivefifths) June 18, 2015****
Black people: "Thugs"
Arab people: "Terrorists"
White guys who routinely are responsible for mass killings in the US: "Troubled loners"
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Ian (@iboudreau) June 18, 2015White men are 31% of the U.S. population, but 71% of mass shooters. Can we talk about the white male culture of violence yet?
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Goat Lady (@civilwarbore) June 18, 2015****
Four little girls in 1963. And here we are, in 2015. Still.
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Elle Elle Cool Baé (@spokenELLE) June 18, 2015We can't worship. We can't play. We can't sleep. We can't fight.We can't comply. We can't run.We can't stand. We can't breathe. We can't BE.
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Elle Elle Cool Baé (@spokenELLE) June 18, 2015****
NRA - "If only someone had a gun to stop this bad person with a gun!"
Black person with toy gun - <gets shot by police>
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Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) June 18, 2015Don't tell Black people not to be enraged. They have every right to be enraged. We have been provoking them for five hundred years.
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2015****
The African American community has been far more peaceful toward white America than we ever have been toward them. Never forget that.
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2015*We* are the ones who need to stop the violence. *We* are the ones who need to stop the hate. *We* are the bad guys. *We must change.*
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Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) June 18, 2015****
Any news source that doesn't peg motivation as pure racism is in malpractice territory now. twitter.com/JuddLegum/stat…
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Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) June 18, 2015The flags on Dylann Roof's jacket are white supremacist patches. Referencing white ruled African states. #AMEShooting http://t.co/h3xpfhL7pf
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015****
Fellow white folk: do not allow anyone to equivocate on Charleston. A white man shooting up a historic black church in prayer is terrorism.
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STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) June 18, 2015Republicans who say Christianity is under attack sure were silent about 9 black people gunned down in a church today. #CharlestonShooting
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Political Nerd (@Sttbs73) June 18, 2015****
Despite mourning, statehouse Confederate battle flag remains at full staff #CharlestonShooting postandcourier.com/article/201506… http://t.co/0IFOXu1KDH
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deray mckesson (@deray) June 18, 2015The confederate flag waves today at the #SC statehouse, while the other flags fly at half … ift.tt/1Fp631Z http://t.co/xFVH7QLDWy
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 201518
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11:45 EDT: President Obama makes a statement on the Charleston Shooting
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The Face Of Terrorism
Dr. King at #EmanuelAME. #HistoricBlackChurch #CivilRightsMovement #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/Iu3ihGjQ2V
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The King Center (@TheKingCenter) June 18, 2015Charleston's Emanuel A.M.E. Church was once burned to the ground for its connection with a thwarted slave revolt. wpo.st/A93M0
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Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) June 18, 2015****
Watch as the media reduces 200 years of black church bombings, burnings, and shootings into "one isolated gunman". #CharlestonShooting
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Mark Provost (@markaprovost) June 18, 2015The #AMEShooting was an act of domestic terrorism. It should be treated with all of the urgency that term implies. http://t.co/WVjLw0nEsg
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Joshua DuBois (@joshuadubois) June 18, 2015****
“Mother Emanuel” A.M.E. Church History
The history of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church reflects the development of religious institutions for African Americans in Charleston. Dating back to the fall of 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richard Allen founded the Free African Society, adhering to the Doctrines of Methodism established by John Wesley. In 1816, black members of Charleston’s Methodist Episcopal church withdrew over disputed burial ground, and under the leadership of Morris Brown. The Rev. Morris Brown organized a church of persons of color and sought to have it affiliated with Allen’s church. Three churches arose under the Free African Society and were named the “Bethel Circuit”. One of the Circuit churches was located in the suburbs of Ansonborough, Hampstead, and Cow Alley, now known as Philadelphia Alley in the French Quarters of Charleston. Emanuel’s congregation grew out of the Hampstead Church, located at Reid and Hanover Streets.
A white Southerner spoke this after the '63 church bombing. They sear after #AMEShooting. Via theatln.tc/1kwUrjx http://t.co/GD973Yls7D
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2015Racism is taught. Perpetuated. Learned. It is a cancerous root. It controls a society. It chokes.
Are you guilty?
theatln.tc/1kwUrjx
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2015In 1822 the church was investigated for its involvement with a planned slave revolt. Denmark Vesey, one of the church’s founders, organized a major slave uprising in Charleston. Vesey was raised in slavery in the Virgin Islands among newly imported Africans. He was the personal servant of slavetrader Captain Joseph Vesey, who settled in Charleston in 1783. Beginning in December 1821, Vesey began to organize a slave rebellion, but authorities were informed of the plot before it could take place. The plot created mass hysteria throughout the Carolinas and the South. Brown, suspected but never convicted of knowledge of the plot, went north to Philadelphia where he eventually became the second bishop of the AME denomination.
Governor who flies Confederate flag at SC capitol says "we’ll never understand what motivates" #Charleston massacre: gu.com/p/49qkx/stw#bl…
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Chase Madar (@ChMadar) June 18, 2015We are dishonest about present acts of terrorism against black people in America because we are dishonest about our past. #AMEShooting
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Ryan Dalton (@capetownbrown) June 18, 2015During the Vesey controversy, the AME church was burned. Worship services continued after the church was rebuilt until 1834 when all black churches were outlawed. The congregation continued the tradition of the African church by worshipping underground until 1865 when it was formally reorganized, and the name Emanuel was adopted, meaning “God with us”. The wooden two-story church that was built on the present site in 1872 was destroyed by the devastating earthquake of August 31, 1886. The present edifice was completed in 1891 under the pastorate of the Rev. L. Ruffin Nichols. The magnificent brick structure with encircling marble panels was restored, redecorated and stuccoed during the years of 1949-51 under the leadership of the Rev. Frank R. Veal. The bodies of the Rev. Nichols and his wife were exhumed and entomed in the base of the steeple so that they may forever be with the Emanuel that they helped to nurture.
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This is why people are outraged, frustrated, and disgusted by what Rachel Dolezal did and continues to do. Blackness is not a goddamned costume. You can’t wash away Blackness when the day is over. Blackness is trying to navigate a world where you could be murdered at any time because of the color of your skin. If you aren’t disgusted or turned off by what she did, there is something fundamentally wrong with you
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This has been a rotten week for black people.
So was last week.
And the week before.
And...
You see where this is going...
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Miss Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 18, 2015#BREAKING- Reports: #Charleston shooter said,"You rape our women and are taking over our country & you have to go."Report coming on @NBCDFW
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Eric King (@EricKingNBC5) June 18, 2015****
They welcomed this white man into their safe space & and he got up & turned his guns on them. American history in a nutshell. #AMEShooting
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015White “Christians” bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church in 1963. This ain’t new twitter.com/imadeintruth/s…
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ATribe Called Breast (@theelectwoman08) June 18, 2015****
Tell us more about how America has “overcome racism,” Bernie Sanders
Note the shooting suspect is 21. Please stop telling the lie that racism will die out. This story replicates 100+ years of violence.
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Mikki Kendall (@Karnythia) June 18, 2015This is what American terrorism looks like & has looked like for over 400 years. #AMEShooting http://t.co/B4Vwvunshl
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zellie (@zellieimani) June 18, 2015****
No hoodies
No toy guns
No breathing
No listening to music at a gas station
No asking for help after a car accident
No praying at church
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LEFT (@LeftSentThis) June 18, 2015To be making mental health diagnoses on WM terrorist who has not been apprehended is White supremacy in action. Also ableism. #AMEShooting
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Trudy (@thetrudz) June 18, 2015****
What domestic terrorism looks like
.@FBI confirms that Dylann Roof, 21, of #Columbia area is suspect in #CharlestonShooting. #chsnews http://t.co/FFYhF1CwYz
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The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) June 18, 2015Breaking: Suspect named in #CharlestonShooting Dylan Storm Roof http://t.co/2IeffUCfGV
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SPLC (@splcenter) June 18, 2015****
Wearing apartheid era South African flag. This was a planned and deliberate massacre
Facebook page photo of suspect Dylann Roof, 21, and surveillance image. #CharlestonShooting http://t.co/In5AjlzCRp
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Andrew Knapp (@offlede) June 18, 2015Suspect in #Charleston shooting identified as 21 yr old Dylann Roof. If you know his whereabouts, call 1-800-CALL-FBI http://t.co/EmFL5gLMCL
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Berkeley County SC (@BerkeleySCGov) June 18, 2015****
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Morning everyone, there just are no words.
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