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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:25 AM Jun 2015

Authorities:FBI.. Photo of Shooter Suspect Dylann Roof, 21, had arrest record...

The FBI on Thursday morning identified a man suspected of carrying out the fatal shooting of nine people at a downtown church as 21-year-old Dylann Roof of the Columbia area.

Denise Taiste, a Columbia-based spokeswoman, confirmed the suspect’s identity.

Roof has been arrested twice in South Carolina as an adult, according to the State Law Enforcement Division. He was jailed March 1 in Lexington County on a drug charge and again on April 26 on a trespassing charge.

A Justice Department spokesman said federal officials have opened a hate crime investigation into the shooting at the historic black church.

The spokesman said Thursday that the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the FBI, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina are opening the investigation into the Wednesday night shooting.

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http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150618/PC16/150619404

I don't recognize any of the patches on his jacket .... anyone?

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Authorities:FBI.. Photo of Shooter Suspect Dylann Roof, 21, had arrest record... (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Jun 2015 OP

"Second flag on Dylann Roof's jacket appears to be that of white-rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe" pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #1

I'm betting then that there are more Ichingcarpenter Jun 2015 #3

The patches "are symbols of the white supremacist movement." pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #5

The top one is an RSA flag... HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #11

the green and white mercuryblues Jun 2015 #2

Any word on the circle patch? Ichingcarpenter Jun 2015 #4

I am looking mercuryblues Jun 2015 #6

good........ on the arrest Ichingcarpenter Jun 2015 #8

I think I see a mortar board and a diploma. Some sort of High School jacket? nt Romulox Jun 2015 #7

I looked mercuryblues Jun 2015 #9

On another thread, a person identified a book and a scroll, and the word "Richland". nt Romulox Jun 2015 #10

tht makes sense mercuryblues Jun 2015 #12

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

1. "Second flag on Dylann Roof's jacket appears to be that of white-rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe"

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:33 AM

Jun 2015

Jon Swaine
@jonswaine 11 minutes

Second flag on Dylann Roof's jacket appears to be that of white-rule Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe

Others have identified the top patch as the flag of apartheid-era South Africa.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)

3. I'm betting then that there are more

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:40 AM

Jun 2015

than one that have this double patch on jackets... its code and relative unfamiliar to the masses..

You don't walk around with a nazi patch or kkk patch so you do something more subtle.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

5. The patches "are symbols of the white supremacist movement."

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:17 AM

Jun 2015

Posted in GD by gollygee:

Mark Pitcavage, the director of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League, told TPM on Thursday that two patches Dylann Storm Roof wore on his jacket in a photo from what appears to be his Facebook page are symbols of the white supremacist movement.

Pitcavage said a patch with orange, white and blue stripes on the upper right side of Roof's jacket is the flag of South Africa's Apartheid government. The patch below it is the flag of the former white-controlled country of Rhodesia, which later became Zimbabwe, he added.

"People don’t randomly have those symbols on a jacket," Pitcavage told TPM. "You have to have a certain point of view, a certain world view."

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HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)

11. The top one is an RSA flag...

Reply to pinboy3niner (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:38 AM

Jun 2015

white supremacy, and I believe also of South African origin.

mercuryblues

(14,564 posts)

2. the green and white

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:40 AM

Jun 2015

patch looks like the Rhodesian flag.

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)

4. Any word on the circle patch?

Reply to mercuryblues (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 10:44 AM

Jun 2015

its too pixelated on my screen to see anything.

mercuryblues

(14,564 posts)

6. I am looking

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:18 AM

Jun 2015

but not coming up with anything yet.

Just heard they arrested him in Shelby NC

Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)

8. good........ on the arrest

Reply to mercuryblues (Reply #6)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:22 AM

Jun 2015

he's not alone in his patches and thoughts.

Romulox

(25,960 posts)

7. I think I see a mortar board and a diploma. Some sort of High School jacket? nt

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:19 AM

Jun 2015

mercuryblues

(14,564 posts)

9. I looked

Reply to Romulox (Reply #7)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:32 AM

Jun 2015

at the White Knoll emblems 1st. Nothing even close.

I leaning towards an emblem coming with the jacket or an emblem of his specific hate group insignia.

Romulox

(25,960 posts)

10. On another thread, a person identified a book and a scroll, and the word "Richland". nt

Reply to mercuryblues (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:34 AM

Jun 2015

mercuryblues

(14,564 posts)

12. tht makes sense

Reply to Romulox (Reply #10)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 12:16 PM

Jun 2015

he lived in Richland County. Lots of things with Richland in the name.

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