The next day, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old avowed white supremacist, was arrested in Shelby, North Carolina, outside Charlotte, 230 miles to the northwest. It had been noticed that when a black person commits a crime, even a nonviolent one, white policemen tend to treat him as a guilty and vicious criminal; while Roof was taken to Burger King for lunch after his arrest.
They should have taken him to White Castle. It might have poisoned him, and saved the taxpayers of the State of South Carolina the cost of his prosecution and incarceration.
A year and a half later, he was convicted on 33 separate federal charges, and sentenced to death. As of this writing, he remains, pending whatever appeals to which he is legally entitled, incarcerated at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, the prison were convicts awaiting the federal death penalty are held.
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June 17, 2015 was a Wednesday. The NFL was in its off-season. The NBA Championship was won the day before, by the Golden State Warriors, taking the NBA Finals in 6 games over the Cleveland Cavaliers. This began a run of 5 straight trips to the Finals, winning 3 of them.
The Stanley Cup was won the day before that, by the Chicago Blackhawks, taking the Finals in 6 games over the Tampa Bay Lightning. This concluded a run of 3 Cups in 6 seasons.
A full slate of MLB games was played:
* The New York Yankees beat the Miami Marlins, 2-1 at the new Yankee Stadium. Manager Joe Girardi -- or maybe general manager Brian Cashman -- decided it took 4 pitchers to toss a 3-hit shutout: Michael Pineda (6 2/3rds), Chasen Shreve (1/3rd), Justin Wilson (1/3rd) and Dellin Betances (1 2/3rds). The Marlin run came on a solo home run by Christian Yelich. The Yankee runs scored on an Alex Rodriguez single in the 1st inning, and a Carlos Beltran singe in the 5th.
* The New York Mets lost to the Toronto Blue Jays, 8-0 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. It was only 1-0 Jays going to the bottom of the 6th, and Jon Niese -- born on October 27, 1986, the night the Mets last won the World Series -- was pitching well. It was still only 3-0 Toronto going into the bottom of the 8th, but the Jays scored 5 runs to pull away.
* The Baltimore Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-4 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
* The Tampa Bay Rays beat the Washington Nationals, 5-0 at Nationals Park in Washington.
* The Atlanta Braves beat the Boston Red Sox, 5-2 at Turner Field in Atlanta.
* Somebody forgot to tell the Cleveland Indians that you gotta come out of the clubhouse to play the ballgame. At home at Progressive Field, the Chicago Cubs beat them 17-0. This was 15 months before the teams would face each other in the World Series.
* The Cincinnati Reds beat the Detroit Tigers, 8-4 at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. Todd Frazier hit a walkoff grand slam in the 13th inning.
* The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Chicago White Sox, 3-2 at U.S. Cellular (now Guaranteed Rate) Field in Chicago.
* The Minnesota Twins beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 3-1 at Target Field in Minneapolis.
* The Kansas City Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 10-2 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.
* The Houston Astros beat the Colorado Rockies, 8-4 at Coors Field in Denver.
* The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Los Angeles Angels, 3-2 at Chase Field in Phoenix.
* The Texas Rangers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-3 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
* Like the Indians, the San Diego Padres seemed not to have come out of the clubhouse to play the game. They lost to the Oakland Athletics, 16-2 at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. At least they didn't get clobbered at home, like the Indians did.
* And the Seattle Mariners beat the San Francisco Giants, 2-0 at Safeco Field (now T-Mobile Park) in Seattle.
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