Confederate flags placed at MLK center, church in Atlanta; police, feds investigate
Source: Fox News
ATLANTA Federal authorities and police are investigating after Confederate battle flags were found around the Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta.
The Rev. Shannon Jones of Ebenezer Baptist tells The Associated Press that police and federal officials were working to remove the flags Thursday morning.
Jones says several flags were discovered on the grounds early in the morning. He described them as being placed "all around" the area and appearing to be plastic flags with wooden sticks.
Jones says Atlanta police Chief George Turner was at the scene.
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/30/confederate-flags-placed-at-mlk-center-church-in-atlanta-police-feds/
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)I mean seriously, if there was ANY question before there sure as hell isn't now.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)Now we all know and they are proud to declare their racism to everyone.
Peace
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Creeps.
jpak
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Atlanta's police chief says officials have seen on surveillance video the images of two white males who placed Confederate battle flags on the grounds of the Ebenezer Baptist Church near the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Atlanta.
Chief George Turner said Thursday at a news conference: "We do have images of two white males placing those flags on the campus." He said he doesn't know their ages, and he didn't give other details.
Turner says the video will be released soon.
Turner called the placing of the flags disgusting but not surprising. He said: "We've seen this kind of ugliness before." Officials say Confederate flags have been placed on the center's campus before, including at King's tomb.
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vkkv
(3,384 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)I hope they guffaw all the way to the jailhouse.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Those are pieces of cloth, not bombs.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)if the federales had started "investigating" this racist bullshit much, much earlier, maybe 9 people wouldn't have been murdered by one of these flag wavers. No doubt as to intent when placing one of this type bathroom tissue at the tomb of an AA icon.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)but zero empathy chip. Zero. Don't waste your time.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)I just just check to let them know, people are on to their BS obfuscation, distraction and diminishing. Just got to let em know continuously, NO More business as usual. I don't see it as a waste of time to keep a check mark on them, stymies them because people are starting to speak up against their BS and to let them know, marginalization of them, is an option. And an option I am enjoying employing. But I hear you, the ones I have gotten sick of and who have made it to the don't waste time list I ignore....completely. They really, don't matter.
JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)However it's who they are.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)just can't help themselves.... I laugh in the face of their ignorance.... backatcha
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I don't think one federal investigator is over the top seeing that the church is next door to a federal site. Though maybe we expect the federal investigators to have prophetic knowledge that no explosives were going to be involved...?
"An officer from the Atlanta FBI's joint terrorism task force was on the scene "to better determine if any specific threats were received" and to provide support to Atlanta police, FBI Special Agent Steve Emmett said in an email."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/confederate-flags-mlk-center-ebenezer-church-32779705
JustinL
(722 posts)It is quite reasonable to investigate the placement of these particular "pieces of cloth" at that particular place as a potential threat, especially since a terrorist enamored of that particular "piece of cloth" just murdered 9 people at a historic black church.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)redruddyred
(1,615 posts)the dude down the street from me has a flag on display too, and I think he's an effing idiot
maybe not-white people with a history of being victimized by white people in uniforms wouldn't find it so amusing. but I wish they could
that's how they got rid of the klan, right? on-air mockery
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)whole 'confederate' thing started. Talking mid-michigan here...
heaven05
(18,124 posts)good old boy sympathizers riding around these here northern states roads. Said, as I spit some chawin tabaceeee, ptooouie!!!!! Always been, always will be. It part of that whole white privilege and the fear of losing said self-perceived privilege, as I see it. Racial hate knows no state boundary.