16-year-old girl planned mass murder at black church say police

White teen girl detailed plan for racist attack on black churchgoers in notebook, police say

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Police in northern Georgia said Tuesday that they arrested a white teenager who was plotting to kill parishioners at a mostly black church, thwarting an alleged racist attack that highlighted a growing threat of hate-fueled violence against houses of worship. The 16-year-old girl was charged with attempt to commit murder after students at her high school told administrators she had a notebook filled with “detailed plans” to kill members of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Ga., according to police. The alleged plot was “definitely racially motivated,” said Sgt. Kevin Holbrook of the Gainesville Police Department. The notebook, he said, contained “manifesto-type” language that discussed how she wanted to assault black parishioners with butcher knives and other sharp-edged weapons.

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Church leaders told local media they believed the teenager idolized Dylann Roof, the self-described white supremacist who in 2015 fatally shot nine black parishioners during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. Authorities said Roof “self-radicalized” online and wrote manifestos loaded with racist characterizations of black people. Roof was convicted of 33 federal hate crimes in December 2016.

Good grief. A Dylan Roof wannabe? Glad they caught her.

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