Todd Rutherford
A South Carolina lawmaker who said he was friends with one of the nine church victims said Fox News, the Confederate flag and the lack of hate crime laws in his state are all to blame for Dylann Roof’s alleged rampage.
On Fox News, Todd Rutherford – the state legislator who touted friendship with fellow lawmaker, Rev. Clementa Pinckney – claimed the network used “coded language” to further hate speech.
“[The gunman] hears that because he watches the news and he watches things like Fox News, where they talk about things that they call news, but they’re really not,” he said, during an interview with CNN. “They use that coded language, they use hate speech, they talk about the president as if he’s not the president, they talk about churchgoers that they’re not really churchgoers. And that’s what this young man acted on. That’s why you can walk into a church and treat people like animals when they’re really human beings.”
Rutherford also said South Carolina exacerbated such attitudes because it flies the Confederate flag right at the state Capitol, and it is one of only five states that doesn’t have hate crimes laws, Mediaite reported.
Rutherford made an appearance on Fox News with Bill O’Reilly to discuss what the host called his “disturbing” remarks – but the lawmaker only doubled down on them, explaining how a lot of black people are bothered by the discussions that take place on Fox.
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