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ADL Vice Chair Speaks at Memorial Service for Charleston 9

ADL Executive Vice Chair Doug Stanger represented the League at an Atlantic County memorial service for the one-year anniversary of the Charleston Shooting.  Read highlights from Mr. Stanger’s moving remarks below:   On this anniver­sary, after a week­end of bias-motivated may­hem, we should reded­i­cate our­selves to ensur­ing that we, as a nation, are doing all we can to fight hate

ADL’s Response to the Charleston Shooting

ADL has been deeply involved in investigative and community responses to the horrific shooting at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina by a young man influenced and radicalized by white supremacist ideology. Immediately after the shooting, ADL’s Center on Extremism was among the first to identify the suspect, 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, as having white supremacist leanings.