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“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di
nada Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta
ponemi sosega.E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Johannes Maria Boekhout
*01-04-1940 - †19-10-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia
despues.
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi sosega.
E ta hibami na awa trankil,
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”.
Salmo: 23
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di:
Silvia Hermus
*21-04-1935 - †20-10-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues.
obituario Diabierna 29 OctOber 2021
U.S. to pay $88M to families, victims of SC
church massacre
(AP) — Families of nine vic-
tims killed in a racist attack
at a Black South Carolina
church have reached a settle-
ment with the Justice De-
partment over a faulty back-
ground check that allowed
Dylann Roof to purchase the
gun he used in the 2015 mas-
sacre.
The Justice Department will pay
$88 million, which includes $63
million for the families of the
nine people killed and $25 mil-
lion for five survivors who were
inside the church at the time of
the shooting, it was announced
Thursday.
Bakari Sellers, an attorney who
helped broker the agreement,
told The Associated Press the
“88” figure was purposeful. It’s a
number typically associated with
white supremacy and the num-
ber of bullets Roof said he had
taken with him to the attack.
the wrong agency, the examiner state senator, as well as other
“We’ve given a big ‘F you’ to did nothing more. pillars of the community. They
white supremacy and racism,” all shared deep devotion to
Sellers told the AP. “We’re do- After a three-day waiting pe- the church, known as Mother
ing that by building generational riod, Roof went back to a West Emanuel, and passed that faith
wealth in these Black communi- Columbia store to pick up the along to their families, many of
ties, from one of the most hor- handgun. whom offered Roof forgiveness
rific race crimes in the country.” when he appeared in court just
The lawsuit for a time was days after the attack.
According to the Justice Depart- thrown out, with a judge writ-
ment, settlements for the fami- ing that an examiner followed The FBI has acknowledged
lies of those killed range from procedures but also blasting the that Roof’s drug possession ar-
$6 million to $7.5 million per federal government for what he rest should have prevented him
claimant. Survivors’ settlements called its “abysmally poor policy from buying a gun.
are $5 million per claimant. choices” in how it runs the na-
tional database for firearm back- Speaking with AP in Washing-
Months before the June 17, ground checks. The suit was ton ahead of the news confer-
2015 church shooting, Roof subsequently reinstated by a fed- ence, Pinckney’s eldest daughter
was arrested on Feb. 28 by Co- eral appeals court. recalled the night of the shoot-
lumbia, South Carolina police ing and said she was committed
on the drug possession charge. “The mass shooting at Mother to maintaining the legacy of her
But a series of clerical errors and Emanuel AME Church was a father, who died when she was
missteps allowed Roof to buy horrific hate crime that caused 11.
the handgun he later used in the immeasurable suffering for
massacre. the families of the victims and “I’ve done whatever I can to keep
the survivors,” Attorney Gen- his memory alive and to carry on
The errors included wrongly eral Merrick Garland said in a his legacy throughout my life,”
listing the sheriff’s office as the statement. “Since the day of the Eliana Pinckney, 17, told the
arresting agency in the drug case, shooting, the Justice Depart- AP. “Just to make sure that the
according to court documents. ment has sought to bring jus- memories that I have with him
An examiner with the National tice to the community, first by a can be shared with other people,
Instant Criminal Background successful hate crime prosecu- so that other people are inspired
Check System found some in- tion and today by settling civil by the life that he lived, and the
formation on the arrest but claims.” life that he would keep living if
needed more to deny the sale, so he was still here.”
she sent a fax to a sheriff’s office. In 2017, Roof became the first
The sheriff’s office responded it person in the U.S. sentenced to The deal, which was reached
didn’t have the report, directing death for a federal hate crime. earlier this month, is still pend-
her to the Columbia police. Authorities have said Roof ing a judge’s approval, Sellers
opened fire during the Bible said.
Under the system’s operating study at the church, raining
procedures, the examiner was down dozens of bullets on those “All nine of these families have
directed to a federal listing of assembled. He was 21 at the been so strong, and they deserve
law enforcement agencies, but time. this closure,” Sellers said. “Of
Columbia police did not appear course we wanted more, but this
on the list. After trying the sepa- The slain included the Rev. is just, and this is justice, and fi-
rate West Columbia Police De- Clementa Pinckney, pastor of nally, these families can say that
partment and being told it was the AME Emanuel Church, a they got it.”