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Saturday 20 June 2015

Outrage After Charleston Judge Tells Relatives of Murdered Churchgoers That The Killer's Family Are VICTIMS..

Outrage: Judge James Gosnell Jr sparked outrage on Friday when he said Dylann Roof's relatives are 'victims'
The judge who arraigned Dylann Roof sparked outrage when he referred to the 21-year-old's family as 'victims' and urged the community to 'rally round them'.
Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr told the court on Friday: 'We have victims - nine of them. But we also have victims on the other side. There are victims on this young man's side of the family.'
The bizarre statement prompted outcry from the victims' families in the public gallery, and a torrent of complaints branding him 'insensitive' and 'racist'.
And it has since emerged Gosnell was reprimanded in 2003 for using the n-word in court, when he told a black defendant: 'There are four kinds of people in this world - black people, white people, red necks, and n---rs.'


Charleston shooter judge tells relatives of victims that Dylann Roof's family are ALSO
The judge who arraigned Dylann Roof sparked outrage when he referred to the 21-year-old's family as 'victims' and urged the community to 'rally round them'. In an unusual and bizarre statement, Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell Jr told the court: 'We have victims - nine of them. But we also have victims on the other side. 'There are victims on this young man's side of the family.'

Nonetheless, after Gosnell was appointed to handle the Charleston shooting case on Friday, when Dylann Roof admitted to shooting nine people.
He opened the court with his appeal to support Roof's family, adding: 'Nobody would have ever thrown them into the whirlwind of events that they are being thrown into.
'We must find it in our heart at some point in time not only to help those that are victims but to also help his family as well.' 
He then charged Roof, whose grandfather C Joseph Roof is a prominent lawyer in North Carolina, with nine counts of murder. 
It came 12 years after he was hauled before the Supreme Court for using the n-word in a bond reduction hearing, and two days later unlawfully ordered the release of a fellow judge caught drunk driving, the Daily Beast reports.

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