jobs, turns out many of those are doomed anyway. i'm ray suarez, thank you for joining us for "inside story". a sanctuary attacked, but a congregation with a long history of standing up against evil. >> many of us don't see ourselves as just a place where we come and worship. but has a beacon, and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people hate. >> what the sites do is give an

echo chamber where they sculpt their own idiosyncratic ideology available. >> lori jane gliha in depth on the motivation behind hate crimes. thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. as new details emerge about the killer and grim motivation, experts began to draw connections between shootings in charleston and other hate crimes. what could trigger violence that could claim the lives of nine worshippers, what pushes someone with hate in mind to strike out and kill? "america tonight"s "america tonight"s lori jane gliha indepth on what we know now about crime and hate. >> reporter: in photographs from facebook the accused shooter in the south carolina church massacre wears flags from apartheid south africa, and drives a vehicle, ordering to

police, showing a confederate flag. details of the shooter's motives are under investigation, officials say what happened at the church was rooted in hate. >> reporter: the department of justice opened a hate crime incident. >> a woman identifying herself as a survivors relative told n.b.c. the shooter made that clear as he pulled the trigger. >> he said "i have to do it." he said "you rape our women, you're taking over our country. and you have to go." >> this is not the first time that black churches have been attacked and we know that hatred across races and cakes pose a threat to ideals the southern poverty mosque center, an organization tracking crimes and groups across the united states documented more

than 700 hate groups in 2014, with 19 in south carolina alone. according to their database they recorded incidents of racial slurs, church arson, a burning flag and racist pamphlets. brian heads the center for the study of hate and extremism. >> domestic terrorism, white supremist and anti-government extremism is high on our threat level here in the united states. >> although the number of hate groups in the united states has gone down in recent years, they are still at historically high levels, according to the southern poverty law center, and the threat of home-grown domestic terrorism is real. >> you don't have to organise a hate group to spread hate. you can do that over social media. now, there's a multitude of different hate sites in different forms. what the sites do, is they give an echo chamber where they can

sculpt their own ideosin accuratic ideology from a buffet of hate. >> online forums perpetuate beliefs like these comments on a white supremacy website called storm front. one of the first and the most substantial white supremist website is a site named storm front. formed and founded by don black, involved in the ku klux klan for a long period of time. >> reporter: this sociologist studied a shooter targetting sheikhs in 2012 and killed six. sites are important in the sense that they are another space where people can connect with each other, in allowing people movement. >> message boards on the storm front site are lighting up with comments after the church shooting. a user wrote these blacks paid for the crimes of other blacks.

another user dined comrade, a church, a street corner, a home. it is the same. why do we feel pity for a race that kills our people every day. shows you, god, shirley is not . >> what is unique today is that individuals can carve out, scope out their own personnel type of extremism without having to accept the extremism of a clan. >> detectives are looking for answers about the killer's mind-set when he took the lives of nine people, and whether he's associated with hate groups in person or online. for now, the community is focused on grieving and remembering the lives of so many innocent victims. "america tonight"s lori jane gliha here. have investigators been able to find links to any groups? >> there's a lot more to learn about the guy now that they have him in custody, the southern poverty law center indicated

that the digging has not connected him to any specific group. that said, he certainly had clear symbols of white supremacy sown on to the jacket. it's not things you randomly have on your clothing. >> how would he know to be involved if he wasn't group. >> it's easy, if you type online, social media, type in area nation, or something like that, or a racist term, thousands of websites come on. you can buy things, you can link up with people on a forum. as experts said, you can sculpt out your own method of being racist online with the support of thousands of anonymous individuals. >> what about the investigation and charges, the feds are involved as well as local authorities, how does this change the picture? >> south carolina doesn't have a

hate crime law. the federal government is investigating, he could be prosecuted either way. under the federal prosecution, however, they would have to prove that he specifically picked out victims based on race. if he was prosecuted by the state because there is no hate crime law, they would not have that type of burden, it would be interesting to see how they pursue this, since the sit and federal government is involved. >> lori jane gliha in a moment we continue the special coverage of the shootings in charleston, with a deeper look at hate crimes in america. what is the motivation? how can they be stopped? later, a holy sanctuary, and the violence. this attack and others echo a long history of standing up to injustice.

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the shootings in charleston. joining us is scott robinson of the advancement project. you focus on racial justice issues and organise to try to stop hate crimes. in this case wouldn't investigators have said that the shooter reportedly said i had to do it. you have to go, referring to the african-americans in the sanctuary. does this mirror what you heard so far about white soup rem sifts and how they bring people into the fold? >> what is key is what he said before that, about you rape our women, something to that extent. this narrative of black criminality is key to white supremist recruitment. in the segment earlier we showed storm front posts, one alluded to blacks killing whites every day. a myth of black on white violence being rampantful. >> this is a motivator, something that supremist groups use to bring people online.

>> absolutely, there's an effort to play on people's fears that are already there. this is a very long-term narrative in america around black criminality, fear of people of colour, and whether - and social rape as well. >> something has to drive people to the moment where they may say, think, talk among themselves, evil thought they might have. something must drive them past kind. >> yes, absolutely. i would say that that is a widely held and almost mainstream view, buying into the notion of black criminality, i don't know if we know enough as to why he would take the action he took yesterday, one of the things we learnt is he was facing criminal charges, maybe he was feeling something in the

wake of that. something triggered him. he was targetting a.m.e. directly, and asked for the pastor by name. i think we saw that that pastor, reverend clementa pinckney had the week before been in the news around police accountability, and may have been responding to the activism that was coming out of that church in recent days. these spaces, i think, become easy targets. there's not a lot of security culture, it's welcoming as we see from the story, him welcomed in, allowed to participate in the bible study or be present for 45 minutes to an hour. i think in some ways they are targeted. but going back to the fact that the black church is - has been a symbol of black fight for social justice for racial economy. particularly.

>> definitely. that's why essentially it became a target. >> scott roberts from the advancement project with us. thank you next - the death toll. another attack under scores america's fight against gun violence, and the mission of a woman determined to record it echos in the sanctuary. the scene of charleston's tragedy, and how this church long stood strong in the face of injustice. >> my name is imran garda the show is called third rail, when you watch this show you're gonna find us being un-afraid. the topics will fascinate you, intrigue you... >> they take this seriously... >> let me quote you... >> there's a double standard... >>...could be a hypocrite >> you're also gonna get a show that's really fair bold... never predictable... >> the should be worried about heart disease, not terrorism... >> i wouldn't say that at all... >> you'll see a show that has an impact on the conventional

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