S.C. judge urges support for accused murderer Dylann Roof’s family in bizarre court speech

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Police talk to a man outside the Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C.
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Judge James Gosnell, inside his chambers at Charleston County Bond Court, after the bond hearing for Dylan Storm Roof on June 19th 2015.
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Raymond Smith, of Erie, PA, prays before the start of Sunday prayer services at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Sunday, June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. The church has been closed since Dylann Storm Roof killed nine parishoners during a prayer meeting last week and re-opened for Sunday services.
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Church members of the Mother Emanuel AME Church community in downtown Charleston, South Carolina arrive for the first services since the violent shooting that claimed nine members of the church on Sunday, June 21, 2015.
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21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, boards a plane at Shelby-Cleveland County Regional Airport for extradition back to Charleston, South Carolina on June 18, 2015 in Shelby, North Carolina.
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Dylann Storm Roof (c.) is escorted from the Shelby Police Department in Shelby, North Carolina on June 18, 2015.
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Dylann Roof, suspect in the shooting death of nine black people at the Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church in South Carolina is arraigned. Chief Magistrate James Gosnell.
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Surreace Cox, of North Charleston, S.C., holds a sign during a prayer vigil down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early on June 18, 2015, following the shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.
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Police vehicles are seen at the street of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 18, 2015.
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Charleston Emergency Management Director Mark Wilbert holds a flier on June 18, 2015, distributed to media with surveillance footage of a suspect wanted in connection with a shooting Wednesday at Emanuel AME Church, in Charleston, S.C.
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Stewart Watson (r.) of Baltimore, comforts Maranda Mincey of Charleston, as they both become emotional while visiting the sidewalk memorial at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 19, 2015, in Charleston, S.C.
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Sandra Bridges lays a greeting card at a makeshift memorial down the street from where the tragic shooting.
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Tarsha Moseley, Martha Watson and Toby Smith pray at a makeshift memorial near Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. on June 18, 2015.
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Nadine Collier (l.) walks out of the Centralized Bond Hearing Court Preliminary Hearing Court after attending the bond hearing for Dylann Roof who is accused of killing her mother, Ethel Lance, and eight others during a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 19, 2015 Charleston, South Carolina.
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A law enforcement official sits in her car while blocking off a section of Calhoun Street near the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.
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Robin Goolfby raises his arms as church-goers who cannot fit into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church stand in the street during a service in Charleston, South Carolina on June 21, 2015. Hundreds of people flocked to Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston on Sunday as it reopened its doors to worshipers just days after a gunman shot dead nine black church members.
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Relatives of victims shot down by Dylann Roof (pictured) at the Charleston's Mother Emanuel AME Church told the killer they forgave him during his first official court appearance via video link at Charleston court on June 19, 2015.
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A passing motorist looks out her window as she stops at an intersection down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday on June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.
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Hundreds of people prayed outside the Mother Emanuel AME Church as the Church re-opens since the horrible shooting on June 17, 2015.
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Lisa Doctor joins a prayer circle early Thursday, June 18, 2015, down the street from Emanuel AME Church following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.
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Sandra Barbour reacts outside Morris Brown AME Church before attending a vigil the day after a mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina June 18, 2015.
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Worshippers embrace following a group prayer across the street from the scene of a shooting at Emanuel AME Church on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. A white man opened fire during a prayer meeting inside the historic black church, killing multiple people, including the pastor, in an assault that authorities described as a hate crime.
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Reverend Richard Harkness holds hands with Reverend Jack Lewin during a prayer vigil held at Morris Brown AME Church for the victims of Wednesday's shooting at Emanuel AME Church on Thursday, June 18, 2015.
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Two women mourn outside the Mother Emanuel AME Church before going inside for services on June 21, 2015.
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Parishioners get emotional inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 21, 2015.
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Investigators work outside the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015, following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.
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The lone suspect in the shooting deaths of nine parishioners belonging to a black church in Charleston was granted permission by Judge Richard Gergel on Monday to represent himself in his upcoming legal proceedings. The ruling comes just three days after Gergel declared Roof, who is facing 33 charges including hate crime and murder, competent to stand trial.
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Two women hold posters against the Confederate flag (c.) during a protest rally in Columbia, South, Carolina on June 20, 2015. The racially divisive Confederate battle flag flew at full-mast despite others flying at half-staff in South Carolina after the killing of nine black people in an historic African-American church in Charleston on June 17, 2015.
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A Church program from Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Memoriam of Reverend Clementa Pinckney, who was one of nine people killed in the violent shooting that claimed nine members of the AME church.
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The front from the Post and Courier newspaper sits amongst a memorial outside the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina on Sunday, June 21st 2015
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Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in Charleston, S.C, on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old man accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance Friday, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP, Pool)
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People stand outside the Emanuel AME Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people on June 18, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. A 21-year-old suspect, Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina, was arrersted during a traffic stop. Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest in the South.
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Police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene, Friday, June 19, 2015 where nine people where shot by Dylann Storm Roof, 21, on Wednesday in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)
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People visit a makeshift memorial near the Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina, after a mass shooting at the Church on the evening of June 17, 2015.
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Family members of those killed are escorted into the Centralized Bond Hearing Court Preliminary Hearing Court to witness the bond hearing for Dylann Roof on June 19, 2015 Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Roof, 21, is suspected of killing nine people during a prayer meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, which is one of the nation's oldest black churches in Charleston.
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Mourners gather outside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Dylann Storm Roof, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina, who allegedly attended a prayer meeting at the church for an hour before opening fire and killing three men and six women.
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Hundreds of people gather for a protest rally against the Confederate flag in Columbia, South Carolina on June 20, 2015.
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State Senator Vincent Sheheen (D-Kershaw) gets emtional as he sits next to the draped desk of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, Thursday, June 18, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C.
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A man is told to leave his sign that reads "Thou shall not kill" outside of the Sunday morning service at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Chruch elders decided to hold the regularly scheduled Sunday school and worship service as they continue to grieve the shooting death of nine of its members including its pastor earlier this week.
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A police officer checks the purse of a parishioner as she arrives for the morning service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston June 21, 2015.
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Charleston residents Darby Jenkins and his mother Ashley, look for a spot to leave flowers for the victims of Wednesday's shootings, near a police barricade in Charleston, South Carolina on June 18, 2015.
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CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 19: A woman weeps outside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, June 19, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Authorities arrested Dylann Storm Roof, 21, of Lexington, South Carolina, after he allegedly attended a prayer meeting at the church for an hour before opening fire and killing three men and six women. Among the dead is the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator and a pastor at the church, the oldest black congregation in America south of Baltimore, according to the National Park Service. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Churchgoers leave the Sunday prayer service following a mass shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church on Sunday, June 21, 2015.
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Churchgoers arrive for Sunday prayer services at the Mother Emanuel AME Church on Sunday, June 21, 2015 in Charleston, S.C. The church, closed since Dylann Storm Roof killed nine parishoners during a prayer meeting last week, re-opened for Sunday services.
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People hug as they pay their respects in front of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church after a mass shooting at the church that killed nine people on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina on June 18, 2015.
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People pay respect outside at the church four days after a mass shooting that claimed the lives of nine people at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Chruch elders decided to hold the regularly scheduled Sunday school and worship service as they continue to grieve the shooting death of nine of its members including its pastor earlier this week.
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Mourners raise hands outside Morris Brown AME Church before attending a vigil the day after a mass shooting in Charleston, South Carolina on June 18, 2015
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Churchgoers leave the Sunday prayer service following a mass shooting at the Mother Emanuel AME Church on Sunday, June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Charleston Police Chief Gregory Mullen addresses the media while joined by Mayor Joseph Riley, right, down the street from the Emanuel AME Church early Thursday, June 18, 2015 following a shooting Wednesday night in Charleston, S.C.
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The Rev. Sidney Davis and other area pastors pray together outside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church June 18, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Worshippers gather to pray in a hotel parking lot across the street from the scene of a shooting on June 17, 2015, in Charleston.
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Church member Kevin Polite (r.) helps members into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on Sunday morning, June 21, 2015.
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The Rev. Norvel Goff prays at the empty seat of shooting victim Rev. Clementa Pinckney inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 21, 2015.
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Photographs of the nine victims killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina are held up by congregants during a prayer vigil at the the Metropolitan AME Church on June 19, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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A Charleston police officer searches for a shooting suspect outside the Emanuel AME Church, in downtown Charleston, S.C. on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.
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A man leans against a light pole as he visits a makeshift memorial down the street from where a white man opened fire Wednesday night during a prayer meeting inside Emanuel AME Church.
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A police officer uses a flashlight while searching the area following a shooting Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in Charleston, S.C.
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Police respond to a shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina June 17, 2015. A gunman opened fire on Wednesday evening at the historic African-American church in downtown Charleston, a U.S. police official said.
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Rev. Sandy Drayton, reacts during a prayer vigil held at Morris Brown AME Church for the victims of Wednesday's shooting at Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, S.C.
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About 1,000 people participated in the 'March for Black Lives' in support of the nine people shot to death at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Church earlier this week and for others killed by police violence June 20, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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People mourn outside the church at a makeshift memorial where nine people were killed on June 17, 2015.
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The Rev. Al Sharpton wipes away a tear after praying outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. on Thursday, June 18, 2015.
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Retired elder Alonzo Middleton greets Retired AME Bishop Zedekiah Grady prior to a prayer vigil held at Morris Brown AME Church for the victims of Wednesday's shooting at Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015
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People gather in front of Mother Emanuel AME Church during Sunday prayer services on Sunday, June 21, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Rev. Jeannie Smalls cries during a prayer vigil held at Morris Brown AME Church for the victims of Wednesday's shooting at Emanuel AME Church on June 18, 2015 in Charleston, S.C.

By Barry Paddock | bpaddock@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News and Rich Schapiro

PUBLISHED: June 20, 2015 at 5:10 a.m. | UPDATED: April 9, 2018 at 12:28 p.m.

A South Carolina judge — who once uttered the N-word in the courtroom — opened the Friday hearing for racist mass murderer Dylann Roof with a tone-deaf statement urging the community to rally around the killer’s family.

“We have victims — nine of them. But we also have victims on the other side,” Charleston County Magistrate James “Skip” Gosnell, Jr. announced in the courtroom packed with the victims’ anguished relatives.

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“There are victims on this young man’s side of the family.”

Gosnell was just getting started.

“Nobody would have ever thrown them into the whirlwind of events that they are being thrown into,” he said.

“We must find it in our heart at some point in time not only to help those that are victims but to also help his family as well.”

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Gosnell, who was branded a racist sympathizer on social media, has a history of putting his foot in his mouth.

“There are four kinds of people in this world: black people, white people, red necks, and n—–s,” he told a black defendant in a Nov. 2013 bond reduction hearing.

Gosnell later offered a sorry defense, saying he was merely repeating a statement he heard from an African American lawman.

“[Gosnell] represents he knew the defendant, the defendant’s father, and the defendant’s grandfather,” court papers show.

[Gosnell] represents that when the defendant, an African-American, appeared in court for the bond hearing, \\[Gosnell\\] recalled a statement made to him by a veteran African American sheriff’s deputy.”

Gosnell insisted he made the comment in an “ill-considered effort to encourage him to recognize and change the path he had chosen in life.”

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Still, the outrageous statement led the state Supreme Court to issue Gosnell a “public reprimand.”

Gosnell’s Friday statement — which was aired live on cable news — drew the wrath of hordes of furious social media users. “Judge James Gosnell in the complete wrong to give sympathy first to #DylannRoof’s family. But it’s South Carolina,” tweeted Vincent Obisie.

“Wait was judge James Gosnell Jr job to arraign Dylan Roof or defend Roof’s family? Wow #RacismInAmerica,” Pierrela Jeanbaptist posted.

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“OH.OH.OH. Judge James Gosnell SYMPATHIZING with #DylannRoof family as victims?! Ashamed to be white today,” tweeted Lisa Sanders.

Gosnell offered no apologies afterward. “I set the tone of my court,” he told FOX News. “It’s my courtroom, I take control over it, and I conduct business within the scope of the law.”

Gosnell also raised eyebrows in 2003 when he showed up at a county lockup about 1 a.m. after a fellow jurist was busted on a DUI charge — and signed a jail form setting bond at $1,002.

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