A US mass shooter on death row has built a devoted clan of followers who even mimic his infamous bowl haircut. This is the sick “Bowl Gang” that celebrates white supremacist Dylann Roof, the church shooter who is set to be executed, as a “cult hero.” Roof — who killed nine members of the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina — has been ordered to be put to death for the 2015 shooting. Despite the horrific shooting that took place in South Carolina, which led to a court’s decision to uphold the death sentence for Roof on Wednesday, the 27-year-old white supremacist has inspired people across the internet. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) explains that Roof supporters “refer to themselves as the ‘Bowl Gang,‘ the ‘Bowl Patrol’ and ‘Bowlwaffen’ or ‘Bowlwaffen Division.’“ The international Jewish non-governmental organisation said the “Bowl Gang” group of Roof supporters has around 40 to 50 active members. Fans of Roof have taken to social media platforms like Gab and Discord to praise him for his violence. For instance, one meme shared to 4chan, an anonymous imageboard website, in March 2018 referred to Roof as “the hero of Charleston … who single-handedly … took down 9 wild dindu nuffins … at their weekly racist rally disguised as a church meeting,” the ADL reports, noting that the “dindu nuffin” phrase is “a racist slang term that refers to African-Americans.” That same year, a Gab user, #NSFWLeeLee, quoted Kevin Strom’s words on Roof, which were, “Dylann Roof’s actions were inevitable because our race still produces men of honour, and men of honour do not go gentle into that good night.” (…) One meme showed Roof’s haircut to be photoshopped on a shield made to resemble the “divisional insignia of the Waffen SS military units of Nazi Germany,” according to the ADL. Three years after Roof’s shooting, court documents revealed Gregory Bush, who fatally shot two black people at a Louisville Kroger in October 2018, said Dylann Roof’s name to investigators, WDRB reported
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