Lena Dunham jämförde Trump med massmördare
Nu ger sig Girls-skaparen Lena Dunham in i bråket mellan president Donald Trump och NFL-spelarna som sätter sig på knä för att protestera mot rasistiska orättvisor. I en rad twitterinlägg kallade hon på måndagen Trump för en rasist och jämför honom med massmördaren Dylann Roof.
”Han är inte bara rasist, han är en rasist med obehandlad psykisk sjukdom, skriver hon enligt Variety.
Dylann Roof dömdes till döden för att ha skjutit ihjäl nio svarta personer i en metodistkyrka i USA 2015.
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Dylann Roof
Wikipedia (en)
Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist and mass murderer convicted in December 2016 of perpetrating the Charleston church shooting on June 17, 2015.
During a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Roof killed nine people, all African Americans, including senior pastor and state senator Clementa C. Pinckney, and injured one other person. After several people identified Roof as the main suspect, he became the center of a manhunt that ended the morning after the shooting with his arrest in Shelby, North Carolina. He later confessed that he committed the shooting in hopes of igniting a race war.
Three days after the shooting, a website titled The Last Rhodesian was discovered and later confirmed by officials to be owned by Roof. The website contained photos of Roof posing with symbols of white supremacy and neo-Nazism, along with a manifesto in which he outlined his views toward blacks, among other peoples. He also claimed in the manifesto to have developed his white supremacist views after reading about the 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin and "black-on-white crime."
On December 15, 2016, Roof was convicted in federal court of all 33 federal hate crime charges against him stemming from the shooting; on January 11, 2017, he was sentenced to death for those crimes. On March 31, 2017, Roof agreed to plead guilty in South Carolina state court to all state charges pending against him—nine counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony—to avoid a second death sentence. In return, he will accept a sentence of life in prison without parole. On April 10, 2017, Roof was sentenced to life without parole nine times after pleading guilty to state murder charges.
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