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| US Justice Department to investigate the Charleston shooting as an act of domestic terrorism | |
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| The murders of nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, is to be investigated by the US Justice Department as both a hate crime and act of domestic terror. | The murders of nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, is to be investigated by the US Justice Department as both a hate crime and act of domestic terror. |
| Dylann Roof, the suspected terrorist, has been charged with nine counts of murder for the massacre at a historic black South Carolina church. | Dylann Roof, the suspected terrorist, has been charged with nine counts of murder for the massacre at a historic black South Carolina church. |
| Emily Pierce, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said the investigation is ongoing. | Emily Pierce, a Department of Justice spokeswoman, said the investigation is ongoing. |
| "This heartbreaking episode was undoubtedly designed to strike fear and terror into this community, and the department is looking at this crime from all angles, including as a hate crime and as an act of domestic terrorism," the statement read. | "This heartbreaking episode was undoubtedly designed to strike fear and terror into this community, and the department is looking at this crime from all angles, including as a hate crime and as an act of domestic terrorism," the statement read. |
| The news comes one day after Attorney General Loretta Lynch said that the department would consider all angles during the criminal probe. | |
| “We will be looking at all the facts and motivations, all the things that led this individual, if he is in fact the shooter, to commit this crime and we will determine which are the best ways to prosecute case,” she said. | |
| The Federal Bureau of Investigation's website says that domestic terrorism must fall under at least one of the following categories: Involve acts dangerous to human life that violates federal and or state law; appear intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, affect the conduct of governments by mass destruction, assissination or kidnapping; occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the US. | |
| Roof waived his right to counsel in North Carolina and his bail was set at $1 million on Friday afternoon. |