FBI director Kash Patel fails to recognise name of Charleston mass murderer Dylann Roof – video

FBI director Kash Patel appeared not to recognise the name of the white supremacist murderer Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black congregants at a US church in 2015, during an appearance before the House judiciary committee. At the start of a series of questions on violent extremism coming from both sides of the partisan divide, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, a Democratic representative from Los Angeles, asked Patel to tell her whether he disagreed with the characterisation that several violent extremists were motivated by rightwing views