Lansing company hosts website that inspired Charleston shooter, but not for much longer
DELTA TWP. — Local web hosting company Liquid Web Solutions is host of the hate group website that inspired mass murderer Dylann Roof.
But it won't be for much longer.
An investigation by technology and science website Gizmodo from earlier this month found that Lansing-based Liquid Web Solutions is the host of the website for Council of Conservative Citizens, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a hate group.
Roof shot and killed nine people during a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015. All of the victims were black.
According to his manifesto, Roof was interested in the death of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old who was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in February of 2012. Roof said it was obvious Zimmerman was in the right so he searched "black on White crime" on Google.
Read more: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2019/07/26/liquid-web-council-conservative-citizens-white-supremacist/1830619001/
