Despite reservations, the presiding judge permitted Roof to be his own attorney three days after he was ruled mentally competent to stand trial for the killing of nine Black civilians in 2015.
A 911 call from a house Raleigh police identified as Chad Cameron Copley’s features a male caller saying ”there’s Black males outside my freaking house with firearms” and that he hit someone from with a “warning shot.”
Dylann Roof faces the death penalty for killing nine Black worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Chuch in Charleston, South Carolina, last year.
James Dixon told detectives in 2013 that he doesn’t “go around gay bashing people.” He pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter charges and a first-degree assault charge in the death of the trans woman.
One of the late soul singer’s nephews says he’s involved with “Sam Cooke: The Truth.” But Cooke’s brother—and the company that owns most of his music—says otherwise.
The campaign was launched to promote solidarity between indigenous and Muslim women in Canada—two groups at the brunt end of just-defeated Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s most controversial policies—in response to the PM’s rhetoric and policies against wearing veils.