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Neo-Nazi domestic terrorist Dylann Roof has been assaulted while behind bars.
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Fellow inmate Dwayne Safford reportedly ran out of his cell and down a set of stairs to carry out the attack.
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Roof was allegedly hit in the face and body with Dwayne's hands before officers pulled them apart.
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Both men have since been "checked by medical at the jail and cleared."
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Roof, who famously published a lengthy racist and anti-American manifesto, was apprehended June 17 after carrying out a mass-murder of nine parishioners at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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According to his attorneys, he has agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence.