Images have surfaced online of mr.
Mr roof holding the confederate battle flag.
Mr roof is seen.
In the following years especially during the civil rights era the banner became a divisive emblem of white supremacist groups.
Now formally charged roof s pre shooting activities including holding the battle flag leave no doubt about this being a hate crime.
Roof the avowed white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners when he opened fire on the emanuel african methodist episcopal church in june 2015 posed with the flag in several photos.
88 t shirt had 88 facebook friends and wrote that number white.
Dylann roof reportedly accepted the flag as a symbol of white supremacy the belief that white people are better than all others especially black.
Roof he s holding the confederate flag in.
In one photograph of mr.
The only way to get it removed is by a vote from the state legislature according to authorities.
The suspected killer is a 21 year old white man.
Dylann roof spat on and burned the american flag but waved the confederate.
Since he allegedly shot nine african american worshipers to death at a historic charleston s c church the country has been wrapped in debate about what the old battle flag symbolizes and.
The battle flag flew atop the south carolina statehouse from 1962 until 2000 when lawmakers agreed after a.
The public reaction powerfully suggests that roof.
Roof holding the confederate battle flag and a gun.
Back in 2015 in the wake of the white supremacist mass murder committed by dylann roof at mother emanuel church in charleston south carolina then governor nikki haley took the genuinely bold.