How Twitter Sleuths Found Dylann Roof’s Manifesto (Warning: Giant Post/Multiple Links/Images) - Polidicks

PS: i sticked mostly to the daily beast article since its more complete(technically its 2 in one), [U]but there is also [B]extra info[/B] on the al-jazeera and yahoo ones(and another one where the guy said he wanted segregation between whites and blacks to his friend), which isn't on this post, so [B]go and read it[/B](post is still huge regardless).[/U] Also, dude is racist as fuck to the point it would be funny if not for the fact he is a murderer. :suicide: [url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/20/how-twitter-sleuths-found-dylann-roof-s-manifesto.html[/url] [url]http://news.yahoo.com/suspected-killer-dylann-roof-s-racist-manifesto-surfaces-154324556.html[/url] [url]http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/fbi-reviews-purported-dylann-roof-racist-manifesto-church-150620234049801.html[/url] [url]http://kxan.com/2015/06/18/friend-says-church-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof-ranted-about-race/[/url] [IMG]http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/06/20/how-twitter-sleuths-found-dylann-roof-s-manifesto/jcr:content/image.crop.800.500.jpg/1434824008295.cached.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE][B][U]How Twitter Sleuths Found Dylann Roof’s Manifesto[/U][/B] It took two independent writers working together on Twitter and $49 dollars to make what could be one of the biggest discoveries yet in the case of Dylann Roof. In a South Carolina courtroom on Friday, Roof was charged with nine counts of murder for the killing of nine Black parishioners who invited him into their Bible study group. A webpage registered under Roof’s name contains a trove of photos of the suspected killer, and a white nationalist political manifesto. Emma Quangel, the nom de guerre of writer and Twitter user @EMQuangel, discovered the website that appears to contain Roof’s manifesto. After I congratulated her for her investigative work, Quangel told me that she saw it as her duty. “As a communist,” Quangel said, “it is my duty and obligation to spend at least $49 to help ruin this guy’s insanity plea.” Roof hasn’t entered any plea yet but speculation about his motives and mental state started before he was apprehended Thursday. Some of the speculation, including from politicians and presidential candidates, has downplayed the evidence that Roof was inspired by racial animus. Equivocation about Roof’s motives happened despite reports that he told his victims, “you rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.” Roof’s writing, if it’s conclusively authenticated, won’t stop all debate about his motives, especially among his defenders online. But it will make it harder for public figures to suggest that a racist political ideology wasn’t the primary inspiration for his crime. The search for Roof’s last testament online started at 8:03 Saturday morning when Twitter user @HenryKrinkle, the pen name of a political blogger, pointed his followers to records of a website registered under Roof’s name. Krinkle had arrived at the site, he told me, in the course of “researching this guy’s Internet trail on a number of places.” As one of Krinkle’s Twitter followers, Quangel followed up on the lead. She paid the $49 dollars needed to see what lay behind the web domain. “Holy shit” she wrote in response to what she found—a website registered to Roof called “lastrhodesian.com,” a reference to Rhodesia, part of what is now the country Zimbabwe in southern Africa, where white former colonists fought a war to establish a white separatist state lasting from 1965-1979. Photos of Roof, which surfaced just after the shooting, showed him wearing a Rhodesian flag, a common symbol of white supremacists, on his jacket. In addition to what look to be dozens of recent photos taken of Roof, the website contains a manifesto in which Roof documents the process of his own radicalization, and details his thoughts about various racial groups with a focus on his belief in the inferiority of Black people and the danger they pose to Whites. Under the heading “an explanation” it reads: “I have no choice. I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.” The last lines of the treatise, which appears to have been written in February of this year when the site was registered, suggest a sense of urgency and hint at the violence done last week. “Unfortunately at the time of writing I am in a great hurry and some of my best thoughts, actually many of them have been to be left out.” [/QUOTE] [quote][B][U]Dylann Roof Visited Slave Plantations, Confederate Landmarks[/U][/B] Eyewitnesses, arrest records, metadata from photographs uploaded to the website evidently created by Dylann Roof sketch the most comprehensive timeline leading up to his alleged attack on the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday, June 17. February 9: LastRhodesian.com domain is registered, which was discovered by Twitter sleuths this Saturday. February 28: Employees and security guards at Columbiana Mall in Columbia, South Carolina call police about a “white male wearing all black” going into stores and “asking employees out of the ordinary questions” like how many people were working, and what time they opened and closed. Police discover Roof, who claims he is looking for job but admits he hasn’t applied to any stores. Police find Suboxone, a pain killer, on him without a prescription. Roof is arrested for possession of a controlled substance and banned from the mall for one year. March 16: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/9WK5gHL.jpg[/IMG] Roof is photographed wearing the flags of Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa in front of a sign marking Sullivan’s Island, just south of Charleston. The island was the entry point for 40 percent of the slaves brought to North America, according to the National Parks Service. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/wJeMmg7.jpg[/IMG] Roof is photographed scrawling “1488” into the sand of a beach on the same day, presumably at Sullivan’s Island. “1488” is white supremacist code. The 14 stands for the 14 words of a phrase coined by the founder of the American Nazi Party: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The eighth letter of the alphabet is H so 88 is HH for “Heil Hitler!” March 25: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ree6mva.jpg[/IMG] Roof is photographed at Elmwood Cemetery in Columbia. Elmwood includes an area where Confederate war dead are buried. April 3: Roof gets money for his birthday from his family, according to his grandfather. It is believed Roof used that money to legally purchase a .45-caliber Glock pistol. April 13: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/flRCkEb.jpg[/IMG] Roof is photographed at the Boone Hall plantation in Charleston—one of America’s oldest plantations, and one that includes [URL="http://boonehallplantation.com/black_history.php"]original slave quarters.[/URL] April 17: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/dwedeAa.jpg[/IMG] Photograph taken of .45-caliber Glock and ammunition, presumably Roof’s. April 20: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/veTWxMj.jpg[/IMG] Roof poses with a gun pointed at the camera. April 23: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8qemlZ3.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/dRz931D.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/npaPOoB.jpg[/IMG] Roof is photographed at McLeod Plantation in James Island, South Carolina. Roof is seen in front of the main plantation house, standing in front of a sign marking a “sacred burial ground for African ancestors,” and behind former slave quarters. April 24: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OwqG7LO.jpg[/IMG] Roof is photographed in front of the Museum and Library of Confederate HIstory in Greenville. April 26: Police dispatched to Columbiana Centre mall in Columbia after Roof is seen in his vehicle. Roof is arrested for trespassing in violation of the one-year ban from the mall. April 29 to May 11: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AESw2Oe.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ae4l8g4.jpg[/IMG] Roof takes several photographs of pro-Nazi, pro-Confederate propaganda, including another “1488” drawn into a beach and him burning the American flag. May 11 to June 17: Little is known about Roof’s whereabouts during this period. Joseph Meek Jr. says Roof contacts him through Facebook during this period about reconnecting. The two were friends in middle school, [URL="http://kxan.com/2015/06/18/friend-says-church-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof-ranted-about-race/"]Meek tells the Associated Press on June 19. Meek says over vodka one night Roof starts ranting about Trayvon Martin’s death, the Freddie Gray riots in Baltimore, and the virtues of racial segregation.[/URL] It is unclear when Roof decided he would target Charleston (as opposed to a location closer to home, like Columbia). There is no date on the manifesto to indicate when it was written, only that it seemingly was done in haste when Roof apologized for any typos because he didn't have time to check the manuscript. June 17: Meek said that morning Roof was at his house in Eastover, sleeping in his car. Roof drops off his brother and Meek at a lake, but says he doesn’t like the outdoors and is going to see a movie instead. At 4:53 p.m., two photos on Roof's website are modified. At approximately 8 p.m., Roof enters Emanuel A.M.E. Church and sits for one hour in Bible study. At approximately 9 p.m., Roof allegedly opens fire on the Bible study group, killing nine. A survivor says Roof told her she was kept alive so she would tell the whole world what he did. June 18: Roof’s father calls Charleston police that morning when he identifies the man on security camera footage at Emanuel A.M.E. as his son, according to a court affidavit. [IMG]http://cdn.thedailybeast.com/content/dailybeast/articles/2015/06/20/dylann-roof-visited-slave-plantations-confederate-landmarks-before-massacre/jcr:content/body/inlineimage_13.img.800.jpg/1434823282396.cached.jpg[/IMG] Roof is arrested in Shelby County, North Carolina 250 miles north of Charleston after a motorist calls police when she sees a driver matching Roof’s description. Roof reportedly gives a statement “tantamount to confession” to the church massacre, and tells investigators he was heading to Nashville, Tennessee but expected to be caught in Charleston. 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God, he is [I]almost[/I] as much of a sad loser as Elliot Rodgers was.

This dude's so obsessed with just showing off how racist he is, it's almost like he's trying to prove himself or something.

He's an angsty kid who went out and murdered people. I am without words.

I'm sorry but he has the typical social outcast look in every photo.

real kvlt shit [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ree6mva.jpg[/IMG]

He looks hilarious with that grim expression and that mushroom haircut.

[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;48017045]real kvlt shit [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ree6mva.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] "r8 my squat fam" He's got a Yung Lean-esque aesthetic to him

Same squat in so many pictures

Dude, absolutely nothing you can do will look cool with a goddamn bowl cut.

So now we can put a face to those weird fucks who obsess over Rhodesia.

With how many people get accidentally shot or preemptively shot in this country, not one single bullet hits this fucker?

[QUOTE=InsanePyro;48017199]With how many people get accidentally shot or preemptively shot in this country, not one single bullet hits this fucker?[/QUOTE] nope and I'd prefer if it stayed that way

Please stop giving him all the publicity he wanted. Its shit like this that encourages more incidents.

[QUOTE=Winner;48017243]anyone sharing this story is doing exactly what he wanted them to do[/QUOTE] Too bad it won't be seen in the light that he wants it to be! This story needs to be told because it's a part of our culture we need to seriously work on. This kind of racial hatred needs to be seen for what it is.

[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;48017256]Too bad it won't be seen in the light that he wants it to be! This story needs to be told because it's a part of our culture we need to seriously work on. This kind of racial hatred needs to be seen for what it is.[/QUOTE] This. Silencing this incident only deal with the symptoms, not the cause.

[QUOTE=Winner;48017279]edited my post to include "with his name" don't put his identity out there for other white supremacists to idolize[/QUOTE] Its a bit late seeing how literally one google search will give you this dudes Wikipedia page and family history.

Just who is taking the photos? A tripod or a friend of his?

Why are ask the crazies nerdy looking white guys. Making me look bad.

there are posts on facebook going around saying why are coloured gunmen called 'terrorists' while white gunmen are called 'mentally unstable' well, I think it's pretty clear cut this guy really is mental

[QUOTE=angelangel;48017367]there are posts on facebook going around saying why are coloured gunmen called 'terrorists' while white gunmen are called 'mentally unstable' well, I think it's pretty clear cut this guy really is mental[/QUOTE] it was premeditated and planned, it's not like he just "snapped." we shouldn't discount that he's a cold-blooded murderer just because he doesn't have a criminal record like all those black "thugs."

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with mental illness. Of course, I could be wrong, but all I see there is a racist who is begging for attention.

[QUOTE=Winner;48017243]anyone sharing this story with his name attached is doing exactly what he wanted them to do[/QUOTE] What the actual fuck? The hell did he think would happen, he'd go shoot up some minorities in a church and suddenly the country would "wake up and realize them dag-burned n*****s ain't no good"?

[QUOTE=angelangel;48017367]there are posts on facebook going around saying why are coloured gunmen called 'terrorists' while white gunmen are called 'mentally unstable' well, I think it's pretty clear cut this guy really is mental[/QUOTE] as we all know, only mentally ill people hurt or kill others (ignoring the fact that mentally ill people are like 11 times more likely to be the victim of violence in the first place)

[QUOTE=Rofl my Waff;48017256]Too bad it won't be seen in the light that he wants it to be! This story needs to be told because it's a part of our culture we need to seriously work on. This kind of racial hatred needs to be seen for what it is.[/QUOTE] All it does is let fanatics know when there words will be ignored there actions wont. [editline]21st June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Van-man;48017271]This. Silencing this incident only deal with the symptoms, not the cause.[/QUOTE] you say that like stopping the shootings means you cant also deal with the cause.

[QUOTE=Solo Wing;48017719]Yeah, I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with mental illness. Of course, I could be wrong, but all I see there is a racist who is begging for attention.[/QUOTE] I think it's both. He seems pretty fucked in the head but it's clear that he's also a racist.

[QUOTE=Hamsteronfire;48017045]real kvlt shit [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ree6mva.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] s a d b o y s

You can instantly tell hes not right by that haircut

[QUOTE=Blazedol;48016974]This dude's so obsessed with just showing off how racist he is, it's almost like he's trying to prove himself or something.[/QUOTE] Pretty standard behavior for neo-nazis that age. You try to hide any qualms you might have about it by overcompensating and brainwashing yourself into it. And of course these ideologies attract all different types of crazies, eventually you're going to get the type that lash out like this.

[QUOTE=Superkilll307;48017236]Please stop giving him all the publicity he wanted. Its shit like this that encourages more incidents.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Winner;48017243]anyone sharing this story with his name attached is doing exactly what he wanted them to do[/QUOTE] Remember, knowing history only leads to the same thing happening again!* *it's actually the opposite.