“The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision,” Lynch said in a brief statement that said the department had considered “all relevant factual and legal issues.”
Roof is awaiting trial on federal hate crime charges in connection with the June 17 shooting at Emanuel AME Church, which contributed to a national conversation about race relations and also led to the removal of a Confederate battle flag from the South Carolina Statehouse.
Roof is also charged with nine counts of murder in state court, and South Carolina prosecutors have already announced plans to seek the death penalty when he stands trial next year. Solicitor Scarlett Wilson has said she wants her case to be tried first.
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I'd like to know why the Feds are involved in a State crime? We have murders in Maryland, and they are prosecuted on the state level. Then there is a few of the crimes that are Race involved, like Trayvon Martin, and again, it was done in a state court. Sounds to me like the Feds are grandstanding.
ReplyDeleteThe Feds are involved because it's being treated as a hate crime.
DeleteLibtard logic at its best....all murders hate crimes?
ReplyDeleteHang him high...
ReplyDeleteThe intelligence agencies actually created the event. Of course the Feds are involved.
ReplyDeleteThey must maintain cover for the event's validity.
Listen, nobody would actually do what this guy is accused of doing. Nobody. It is a silly story.
Exodus 21:12-14English Standard Version (ESV)
ReplyDelete12 “Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death. 13 But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. 14 But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.