A day in the life of the newest leader of white nationalists - Al Jazeera America
Late at night on June 17, after he and his wife had gone to bed, Matthew Heimbach’s phone rang on his nightstand. The man asked Heimbach if he knew a man called Dylann Roof and, if so, if he knew where Roof was. Heimbach told the officer that he had never heard of Roof and wondered what the call was about. Without explaining further, the officer thanked him and hung up. “That’s when things got weird,” Heimbach says. Soon calls were coming in from associates who had all gotten similar calls from the FBI, and they were all now wondering the same thing: Who was Dylann Roof, and why hadn’t any of them heard of him until tonight. “None of us had ever even heard the name Dylann Roof before,” Heimbach says. This, presumably, was why, when a white supremacist gunned down nine congregants in a historically black church in Charleston, the FBI called him. In the days after the massacre, everyone was trying to figure out why no one had heard of Roof before. Source: projects.aljazeera.com
