GREENSBORO – As authorities searched Thursday for Dylann Roof in connection with the Charleston church shootings, a photo was released that showed two patches on the right side of his jacket. They were identified as those of former apartheid states South Africa and Rhodesia.
Both countries had white minority governments.
“I think he, in some ways, that those are the symbols and sources of his pride and perhaps his angst. I experience people who do these kinds of things as actually feeling powerless and wanting to exercise some kind of power,” said Dr. Omar H. Ali from UNC Greensboro.
Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in the late 1970s after a long civil war. South Africa ended its policy of apartheid in 1994.
