DALLAS — A Missouri group cited in an online manifesto purportedly written by the Charleston church shooting suspect said it is not "responsible for the actions" of people "educated" by its website.
The Council of Conservative Citizens was founded
30 years ago, and a civil rights organization calls it a "crudely white
supremacist group" that is the "modern reincarnation" of efforts in the
1950s and 1960s to resist school desegregation in the South.
Dylann Roof, the suspect in last week's slayings of a pastor and eight congregants, said in the purported manifesto that he learned about "brutal black on white murders" from the group's website.
Jared Taylor, the group's spokesman, said Monday
that "no one in the organization that I know of ... has ever heard of
(Roof). He certainly was never a member, and I don't suspect that he
ever attended a meeting." Taylor placed the group's membership in the
"thousands" but declined to be more specific.
"Our site educated him. Our site told him the
truth about interracial crime. What he then decided to do with that
truth is absolutely not our responsibility," said Taylor, who added he
"categorically condemns" the killings.
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