The shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, sparked public discourse about racism in America and led to the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds. The shooter, a 21-year-old white man named Dylann Roof, had developed a white supremacist ideology in the wake of the 2012 killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin.
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