The Justice Department agreed Thursday to pay $88 million to families and survivors of the 2015 deadly church shooting in Charleston, S.C., since its gun background check system failed.
A federal jury sentenced White supremacist Dylann Roof to death in January 2017 after he openly admitted to killing nine people at the historic Black church Mother Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church during a bible study in an attempt to spark a race war. A month before the sentencing the jury convicted him on 33 federal charges, including hate crimes.
Roof, who had just turned 21, was arrested for a felony drug offense in Lexington County, S.C., a few months before he purchased the Glock 41 semi-automatic pistol used to kill nine people on June 17, 2015. An examiner for the FBI’s background check system failed to contact the arresting agency for an incident report, which would have blocked him from purchasing the gun from Shooter’s Choice in West Columbia, S.C., court records show.
The settlement in the lawsuit against the illegal gun purchase will provide $63 million for family members of the victims and $23 million for survivors, NBC News reported.
About a year ago, a federal judge ruled that a federal agent failed to follow the FBI’s system for conducting background check ruled under the Brady Act, which denies gun purchases to someone with a felony allowing lawsuits by family members and survivors to proceed.
More recently, a federal appeals court refused to have its full panel of judges hear an appeal of Roof’s death sentence. Roof had petitioned the court in August after a three-judge panel voted unanimously to uphold the death sentence.
Roof’s lawyers said prosecutors emphasized the goodness of the nine victims and that violated Supreme Court precedent.
South Carolina state Sen. Clementa Pickney, 41, who was also a church pastor, Cynthia Hurd, 54; Tywanza Sanders, 26, Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70; Susie Jackson, 87; DePayne Middleton Doctor, 49; Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45; and Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74, died in the 2015 shooting.
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Let the taxpayers pay for everything, after all money never comes out of a dirty politicians pocket, does it? Also, why aren’t the people at the FBI, who failed to report this incident, to block the perpetrator from getting a gun, fired?
One thing has become apparent during this corrupt, insane, traitorous, socialist Democrat Party reign, is that if one is of color, illegal immigrant or a member of the LGBTQ perversion. You have the rights of the Democrat’s false gods.
If one is White or a Republican, to this socialist Democrat Party we are
“domestic enemies” and “enemies of the State.”
There was a time when most Americans were white and straight and everyone got along just fine. Just down load American movies starting with the 1920, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and see the live action street shots of the streets of our cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and you do not see a lot of black or brown faces in the audience population hustling and bustling about the sidewalks. Then something Alinsky happened in the 1960s and by the 2020s things somehow got darkened in skin color and sexual identification, with major leaps and changes starting with Obama. White American soon became so preoccupied with guilt they failed to see what was happening to their culture which skin change should have had no part in changing. So ,what was the birth of the pathology? The use of skin color as an excuse by Socialist’s intent of dividing and conquering, these days disguised as Traditional Democrats in name, but revealed as Communists in actions, who always take the least path of resistence in their social resistance, using skin color in ways to do so destroy THE PEOPLE of collateral damaged colored skin first, never letting a self-made crisis go to waste, just a people of color in lives wasted following their foolishness.
Il.. Not all whites got consumed with ‘guilt’..
So just when has it become THE PEOPLE’s responsibility, not the killers to reimburse or suffer in penalty for a crime committed. Only when THE PEOPLE become the criminals and Criminals run the country to facilitate more dishonest redistribution of hard-earned American wealth!!!!! Ill-fated Unconstitutional Democrat failed programs run by fallible people who let minor things slip through the cracks are created every day by the thousands. Just why do THE PEOPLE have to pay for the expected screwups unless their first and major screw up was to elect Socialist Democrats in disguise in overwhelming squad screwup numbers that create and pass laws that setup THE PEOPLE for more planned redistribution of their clean innocent wealth into the hands of the preplanned failed victims of society they setup to create? Guilt by associate always follows their elections, as does the redistribution of your wealth and personal property. Nobody wins when they ruling THE PEOPLE is their own definition of governing.
What gets ME about this, is NO ONE ELSE GETS PAID because of crime.. SO WHY SHOULD these ‘survivors/victims?
Seemingly never-ending unemployment benefits and other government “compensation” for not working—$450,000 per illegal alien if separated from their family when entering through the Southern Border—proposed reparations for Blacks who did not suffer slavery—millions to the George Floyd family—and now $88 million for the families and survivors of the Charleston church shooting—Wow!! I’m feeling left out.
Is it by accident that the recipients of the vast majority of this money are either Blacks or illegal aliens? All of these are high-profile, Media sensationalized occurrences. And where is the justification for all of this? Perhaps the middle class will get to pay more taxes to fund these giveaways.
What about all those WHITE victims, of all the BLACK CRIME? Where is their ‘payments, for pain and suffering”???
Using about the same ‘logic’, the victims of people not retained as illegal boarder crashers, who then commit crimes like murder and such should trigger the cornucopia to to shower the victims with cash.
That won’t happen. ever.
WE americans will never get compensated, for all the crimes illegal invaders commit.. HELL MOST AMERICANS don’t ever get compensated, from when FELLOW AMERICANS commit a crime….