FBI director: Charleston shooting not an act of terrorism

BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF | Sinclair Broadcast Group) — FBI director James Comey said Friday that while his agency is investigating the murder of nine people in Charleston, S.C. as a hate crime, it is not an act of terrorism.

He said due to the lack of political motivation for his actions, alleged shooter Dylann Roof is not a domestic terrorist.

"Terrorism is act of violence done or threatens to in order to try to influence a public body or citizenry so it's more of a political act and again based on what I know so more I don't see it as a political act. Doesn't make it any less horrific the label but terrorism has a definition under federal law," he said during a visit to Baltimore.

Affidavits from the Charleston police department claim Roof "with malice and aforethought" shot nine African American parishioners at Emmanuel AME Church with a .45 caliber handgun.

The documents also say he stood over one witness and uttered a racist remark during the massacre before fleeing the scene.

Roof's racist motives have the Charleston Police Department and the FBI investigating the massacre as a hate crime.

http://www.abc3340.com/story/29368499/fbi-director-charleston-shooting-not-an-act-of-terrorism


"He said due to the lack of political motivation for his actions, alleged shooter Dylann Roof is not a domestic terrorist.

The act was  pure  Politics as Power.  White Power spat out through the barrel of a gun. Political points made  through Bullets.