According to Dylann Roof’s arrest report, the 21-year-old was treated to a meal at Burger King compliments of the officers who arrested him.
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The fuck? My dude murders my people and gets a fucking whopper for his troubles? That's some straight up bullshit.
I know that the thread has more than moved on from this topic, but:
1) The
absolute, number 1 rule of interrogation is: ESTABLISH RAPPORT.
2) One of the simplest ways to make an effort towards establishing point #1 is to get the fucking asshole shitrat some fast food. This is not a secret. It's even in the gawdamned Wire. I've never had to interrogate someone on the level of a mass murderer/pedophile/whatever suspect, but nearly
every single person I've brought back to the station in cuffs has been offered a food run. In fact, it's official policy to do so in my org, and probably is in others, outside of its value as a rapport-building technique.
3) Although it is an obvious, given, whateverthefuck that Roof pulled the trigger, that does
not mean that an interrogation is unnecessary, or that following the procedures for such is unnecessary. For one thing, it is necessary to establish whether or not anyone gave him any sort of support in carrying out his attack. For another, we were all sickened from some of the initial "bu-bu-bu what if he has a mental illness?!?!?!" media speculation. In the realm of the courts, a proper and thorough police interrogation of the suspect and his motivations and state of mind can do a lot to close off any defence claims of "mental illness" later on down the line when it comes to trial and sentencing.
In other words, I understand the anger surrounding this situation, and comparisons to other examples of bad police behaviour, but losing one's shit over the police doing their jobs properly to ensure a conviction for this asshole is not a good use of one's energy, imho.
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