Posted: Oct 12, 2015 12:51 PM EDT Updated: Oct 12, 2015 12:59 PM EDT
By Jonathan Andrew

DOUGLASVILLE, GA (CBS46) - Authorities released the names of 15 people indicted in a brawl between a group of people flying Confederate Flags on their trucks, and a group of birthday party celebrants in Douglasville.

The suspects are all charged with violating the street gang and terrorism prevention act, as well as terrorist threats, and a few defendants face charges of battery.

According to the indictment, dated October 9, District Attorney Brian K. Fortner believes the defendants were involved in gang activity, with a group called "Respect the Flag", and that they, by threatening the people at the birthday party on Campbellton Rd., terrorized the people there ...

http://www.cbs46.com/story/30240665/15-charged-in-douglasville-birthday-party-brawl

Good on Douglas County and the DA.

By Jeremy Gray
on October 12, 2015 at 3:55 PM

... SPLC chief trial counsel Morris Dees praised District Attorney Brian Fortner for bringing charges.

"These cowards chose unarmed African Americans enjoying a peaceful birthday party to vent their violent racist hatred," Dees said. "This is reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan – modern-day night-riders terrorizing African Americans in the name of Southern heritage" ...

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/10/confederate_flag_waving_party.html

October 12, 2015

... Ten men and five women were charged with issuing terroristic threats and participating in gang activity. Two of the men were also charged with battery for hitting a man at a gas station on the same day.

The SPLC launched an investigation immediately after the July 25 incident and turned over videos and other evidence to Douglasville District Attorney Brian K. Fortner. SPLC attorneys also brought witnesses to the prosecutor and have been representing some of the people at the party ...

On the morning of July 25, at least seven pickup trucks decorated with Confederate flags were driving around the area when they passed by a family party with about 30 people, including small children, on private property in Douglasville, a small town just west of Atlanta.

The convoy drove across the property where the party was being held and parked nearby. Witnesses told the SPLC that men got out of their trucks, brandished weapons and yelled racial slurs and threats. According to the witnesses, a few people yelled “fuck y’all niggers” and “shoot ‘em.” When someone from the party said, “There are kids here,” a person from the convoy yelled, “We’ll shoot those bastards, too” ...

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2015/10/12/fifteen-confederate-%E2%80%98flaggers%E2%80%99-indicted-terroristic-threats-and-gang-activity-georgia

Assholes.