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   From: prestonm@nytimes.com   
      
   Dylann Roof has made statements “tantamount to a confession” in   
   the shooting of nine people during a prayer service inside a   
   historic black Charleston, S.C., church, a law enforcement   
   source said Friday.   
      
   The federal law enforcement official, speaking anonymously, said   
   he was told that Roof talked to local investigators and   
   described some details about Wednesday night's shooting. The   
   source has been briefed on the matter but is not permitted to   
   speak publicly because the case is unfolding.   
      
   Roof, 21, has been charged with nine counts of murder and one   
   count of possession of a firearm during a violent crime,   
   according to a warrant filed Friday and is scheduled to appear   
   in court via video Friday afternoon.   
      
   Law enforcement officials emphatically denied media reports that   
   Roof, who witnesses said made racist comments, told   
   investigators that he acted in the hopes of setting off a race   
   war.   
      
   “We’ve never said he told us he was trying to start a race war,”   
   Charles Francis, top spokesman for the Charleston Police   
   Department, said in an interview Friday. “I don’t know where   
   that came from. Let me be very clear about that.”   
      
   But, Francis said, Roof “has been interviewed by our   
   investigators and he has made some statements about what   
   happened” in the church.  “Our detectives always interview   
   suspects, and that is what happened here too.”   
      
   Francis declined to discuss exactly what Roof told local   
   detectives, but said that it was consistent with the decision by   
   state prosecutors to file the nine murder charges and firearm   
   charge against him.   
      
   The racial issue has remained a gnawing presence during the   
   debate after the shooting.   
      
   Speaking at a news conference, NAACP national President Cornell   
   William Brooks condemned the shooting as “an act of racial   
   terrorism” and a hate crime that goes against the “conscience   
   and soul of the country.” He condemned state officials for   
   continuing to fly the Confederate flag, an ongoing issue that   
   has worsened race relations in the South.   
      
   “We cannot have the Confederate flag at the state Capitol,”   
   Brooks said. The leader of the  National Assn. for the   
   Advancement of Colored People criticized those who defended the   
   flag, which represented the Southern states that seceded from   
   the Union over black slavery, leading to the Civil War. It has   
   become a symbol for some white supremacist groups.   
      
   As opposed to law-breaking white-hating black nigger groups.  We   
   got your number, Brooks.   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-charleston-church-shooting-   
   roof-20150619-story.html#page=1   
       
      
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