hanging outdoors.
At around 8:16 p.m., Roof (pictured here on Camera 1) grabs the open and welcome doors Emanuel AME Church where he picked up where he left off from his history lesson and excursion a couple months prior—visiting the sacred grounds of slave plantations and Confederacy.
So here we are June 17, Roof takes to the doors of the church (where I’m sure during his excursion-he learned that the church was the sacred ground and the only time slaves were allowed to congregate at any one given time during slavery).
(click here, or pic for story behind this pic taken from inside bible study)
So Dylan (knowing Wednesday/hump day is Bible study day for almost every church in the world), takes it upon himself to immerse himself into that part of the slavery experience by copping in that church moment for about an hour and joined the churchgoers for bible study, where from there…as we all know, the rest is history: He stood and proceeded to point that very gun (he’d been so excited about) at several people and began to shoot-killing 9 people. (One survivor kept alive so that she could live to tell the story about what he’d done).
That evening, that security footage was put out on the news and circulated across the Internet. One thing we all know (or should know) about that grainy surveillance footage from any store, bank (or church): It may not ever be clear enough for people who don’t know you to recognize you, but the funny thing about all surveillance footage is: If you know the person, personally, you can always recognize them under grainy and murk pixels-always.
June 18
Indeed, Roof’s father called Charleston police in the morning and identified the man of the footage entering Emanuel AME as his son Dylan Roof.
After a motorist recognized the car accompanied with/as apart of the circulating pic of the video of Roof opening he doors to the church, Dylan was arrested in Shelby County, North Carolina (250 miles of Charleston).
Reportedly, Roof gave a statement “tantamount to confession” [sic] confessing to the church massacre. He told officials he was headed to Nashville, Tennessee but expected to be caught in Charleston.
While varying reports are circulating from all the “friends” of this “loner”-Dylan knowing his thinking and wishes to caused massacres in various places, where are the statements from Meek-the friend he reached out to on Facebook (May 11- June 17) and was obviously hanging out with for the months leading to the shooting.
Let’s talk to the friend Meek-don’t let him be meek and timid at speaking up. He knows the most.
UPDATE (about Meek) NBC’S KXAN reported:
In an interview with The Associated Press, Joseph Meek Jr. said he and Roof had been best friends in middle school but lost touch when Roof moved away about five years ago. The two reconnected a few weeks ago after Roof reached out to Meek on Facebook, Meek said.
Roof never talked about race years ago when they were friends, but recently made remarks out of the blue about the killing of unarmed black 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida and the riots in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray in police custody, Meek said.
“He said blacks were taking over the world. Someone needed to do something about it for the white race,” Meek said, adding that the friends were getting drunk on vodka. “He said he wanted segregation between whites and blacks. I said, ‘That’s not the way it should be.’ But he kept talking about it.”
Meeks said Roof also told him that he had used birthday money from his parents to buy a gun and that he had “a plan.” He didn’t elaborate on what it was, but Meeks said he was worried — and said he knew Roof had the “Glock” — a .45 caliber pistol — in the trunk of his car.
Meek said he took the gun from the trunk of Roof’s car and hid it in his house, just in case.
“I didn’t think he would do anything,” he said.
But the next day, when Roof was sober, he gave it back.
Meek said that when he woke up Wednesday morning, Roof was at his house, sleeping in his car outside. Later that day, Roof dropped Meek off at a lake with his brother Jacob, but Roof hated the outdoors and decided he would rather go see a movie.
Jacob said that when he got in the car, Roof told him he should be careful moving his backpack in the car because of the “magazines.”
Jacob said he thought Roof was referring to periodicals, not the devices that store ammunition.
“Now it all makes sense,” he said.
Joseph Meek said he didn’t see his friend again until a surveillance-camera image of a young man with a soup-bowl haircut was broadcast on television Thursday morning in the wake of the shooting. Meek said he didn’t think twice about calling authorities.
“I didn’t THINK it was him. I KNEW it was him,” he said.
Roof, who dropped out of high school in 10th grade, believed slavery was a myth and was inspired to racial supremacy after
