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Showing Original Post only (View all)Classmate: Dylann Roof Did a Lot of Drugs, Made a Lot of Racist Jokes [View all]
Classmate: Dylann Roof Did a Lot of Drugs, Made a Lot of Racist Jokes
A former high school classmate of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof tells the Daily Beast Roof was a prescription pill abuser who made a lot of racist jokes.
Roof is the main suspect in Wednesday nights Charleston church shooting that left at least nine people dead.
The classmate, John Mullins, tells the website Roof was kind of wild but not an outcast at the school.
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A former high school classmate of Charleston shooting suspect Dylann Roof tells the Daily Beast Roof was a prescription pill abuser who made a lot of racist jokes.
Roof is the main suspect in Wednesday nights Charleston church shooting that left at least nine people dead.
The classmate, John Mullins, tells the website Roof was kind of wild but not an outcast at the school.
He used drugs heavily a lot, Mullins said. It obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that.
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I never heard him say anything, but just he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs, he said. He made a lot of racist jokes, but you dont really take them seriously like that. You dont really think of it like that.
But now, the things he said were kind of not joking, Mullins added.
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http://gawker.com/classmate-dylann-roof-did-a-lot-of-drugs-made-a-lot-o-1712241426?rev=1434641503610&utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/18/everything-known-about-charleston-church-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof.html
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Classmate: Dylann Roof Did a Lot of Drugs, Made a Lot of Racist Jokes [View all]
MohRokTah
Jun 2015
OP
"...he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs,”
chalmers
Jun 2015
#1
Reminds me of making light of watermelon jokes here- how'd that work out for this kids
bettyellen
Jun 2015
#29
I'm guessing that after he left school and was zoned out on pills, the black classmates
ck4829
Jun 2015
#9
Which is why lifting all economic boats can actually create a racist or sexist backlash...
bettyellen
Jun 2015
#15
Best stop ignoring institutional racism and sexism, and pretending $$$ cures everything.
bettyellen
Jun 2015
#20
Avoid the topic at all costs, perhaps because you think it's a third way plot-
bettyellen
Jun 2015
#26
Well then you misread. I was correcting the foolish assumption that money alone will fix
bettyellen
Jun 2015
#42
I think that claim is BS, as is this whole fake divide between economic and social issues.
Comrade Grumpy
Jun 2015
#50
OK then he was not an outcast 'loner ' . Made racist statements classmates processed as jokes
Person 2713
Jun 2015
#14
can't wait to find out what's on his hard drive and how many hours a day his dad watched fox News
Takket
Jun 2015
#31
Sadly, nothing will change re: gun laws. We know that now. If a school full of precious....
Tarheel_Dem
Jun 2015
#47