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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConfrontation With Black Partygoers Leads to Gang Charges for White Group
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/us/confederate-flag-supporters-georgia-indicted-clash-black-partygoers.html?_r=0DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. In an unusual legal maneuver, the district attorney in this suburb of Atlanta said Monday that he had won indictments against 15 supporters of the Confederate battle flag, accusing them of violating the states anti-street-gang statute during a confrontation with black partygoers in July.
Prosecutors say that members of the group, which calls itself Respect the Flag, threatened a group of blacks attending an outdoor birthday party on July 25. A cellphone video of part of the episode shows several white men driving away from the party in a convoy of pickup trucks with the Confederate battle flag and other banners, including American flags, fluttering from the truck beds.
The partygoers contend that members of the flag group yelled racial slurs and displayed a crowbar, a knife and either a rifle or a shotgun, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group in Montgomery, Ala., that is representing some of the accusers.
The Douglas County district attorney, Brian Fortner, a white Republican elected to the office in 2014, announced the indictments in a news conference Monday morning. Each of the 15 was indicted on one count of making terroristic threats and a second count of unlawfully participating in criminal gang activity.
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Confrontation With Black Partygoers Leads to Gang Charges for White Group (Original Post)
Cassiopeia
Oct 2015
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. Outstanding...so not all Republicans are scum. Most, sure, but this one isnt.
These indictments are HUGE.
HE will suffer tremendous blowback as well.
This is a real man, this guy.
And if it were a Woman, same thing, Real Woman.
Oh yeah, welcome. Great post!
He'll likely even be subjected to death threats over this one.
Frankly I'm shocked, especially considering the region.
Thanks for the welcome.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)2. welcome to DU, and nice post. recommended!
All about the heritage and pride.