*The head of the NAACP is calling the slaying of nine people inside a black church an act of “racial terrorism” and says the Confederate flag flying on the South Carolina Capitol grounds in Columbia needs to come down.
NAACP President and CEO Rev. Cornell William Brooks spoke at a press conference Friday in Charleston, two days after police say 21-year-old Dylann Roof opened fire on a Bible study at the Emanuel AME church in the city. He has been charged with nine counts of murder and is due to appear this afternoon at a bond hearing.
Brooks mentioned that Roof had a Confederate flag on his license plate and displayed symbols of racist regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia on a jacket he wore in a Facebook photo.
The NAACP has called for the flag’s removal from the Statehouse grounds ever since it was taken down from the top of the Statehouse dome, where the American and state flags are flown. When the flag was moved from the dome to a Confederate soldier monument in front of the building, some called it a compromise, but the NAACP disagreed and wants it removed entirely from the grounds.
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