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struggle4progress

(118,294 posts) Thu Jul 30, 2015, 02:22 PM Jul 2015

Video shows 2 men placing Confederate flags at Ebenezer (GA)

2:18 p.m. Thursday, July 30, 2015

Atlanta police said surveillance footage shows two men placing Confederate flags at two of Atlanta’s most notable landmarks early Thursday: Ebenezer Baptist Church and Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site Visitor Center.

As investigators worked to identify the men and their motive, church and civic leaders decried the act as terrorism, vowing not to be threatened.

Around 6 a.m. Thursday, a maintenance man spotted the four flags and notified a federal park ranger who then called police. Local and federal investigators were dispatched to the Auburn Avenue sites, where the flags were removed and taken as evidence ...

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/four-confederate-flags-left-at-king-center-ebeneze/nm889/

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Video shows 2 men placing Confederate flags at Ebenezer (GA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP

Confederate flags found at US black church in Atlanta struggle4progress Jul 2015 #1

Police Seek Suspects Who Left Confederate Flags Near MLK's Atlanta Church struggle4progress Jul 2015 #2

Confederate Flags Placed Near MLK's Church in Atlanta struggle4progress Jul 2015 #3

These creeps just can't take no for an answer, can they? shenmue Jul 2015 #4

struggle4progress

(118,294 posts)

1. Confederate flags found at US black church in Atlanta

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 02:24 PM

Jul 2015

... Rev Raphael Warnock, a senior pastor at the church, said: "It is a hateful act. I view it as an effort to intimidate us in some way, and we will not be intimidated" ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33724651

struggle4progress

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2. Police Seek Suspects Who Left Confederate Flags Near MLK's Atlanta Church

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 02:26 PM

Jul 2015

by JACQUELLENA CARRERO

... "To place a Confederate flag on our campus is a political statement," Warnock added. "When we are afraid, when we are concerned, church is where we go. We need to get together now more than ever."

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/confederate-flags-placed-near-martin-luther-king-jr-s-church-n401086

struggle4progress

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3. Confederate Flags Placed Near MLK's Church in Atlanta

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 02:29 PM

Jul 2015

ATLANTA — Jul 30, 2015, 12:54 PM ET
By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press

... A conference on the role on black churches in social justice issues has been going on in Ebenezer's facilities ...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/confederate-flags-mlk-center-ebenezer-church-32779705

shenmue

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4. These creeps just can't take no for an answer, can they?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:15 PM

Jul 2015

Jerks.

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