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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 11:17 AM Jul 2015

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/

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Confederate flags placed at MLK center, church in Atlanta; police, feds investigate (Original Post) jpak Jul 2015 OP
Pro flag people are doing a GREAT job showing the confederate flag is not about racisim huh? hollowdweller Jul 2015 #1
Yeah shenmue Jul 2015 #2
Yes hibbing Jul 2015 #10
Uh huh...not at all about being racists. SoapBox Jul 2015 #3
The Latest: Video shows 2 white males placing Confederate flags near MLK center, police say jpak Jul 2015 #4
The Racist Flag Of Hate needs to go the way of the Nazi flag. vkkv Jul 2015 #5
+100 SoapBox Jul 2015 #7
Very cheap thrills for very fucked up people. Elmer S. E. Dump Jul 2015 #6
Federal authorities are investigating? Seems a bit over the top. Comrade Grumpy Jul 2015 #8
well maybe, just maybe heaven05 Jul 2015 #9
Plus 100 JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #14
true heaven05 Jul 2015 #16
They get it JustAnotherGen Jul 2015 #19
true heaven05 Jul 2015 #21
I don't think one fed investigator is over the top seeing that the church is next door to a fed site LanternWaste Jul 2015 #13
and the words "I'm going to kill you" are just vibrations of air molecules JustinL Jul 2015 #18
It is all about HERITAGE, I tell ya! yellowcanine Jul 2015 #11
as a white person, I just gotta roll my eyes at this shit redruddyred Jul 2015 #12
I've never seen as many confederate flags mounted in the beds of pickup trucks as I have since this Purveyor Jul 2015 #15
Lot of sympathizers heaven05 Jul 2015 #17
You see World?, Con. Flag really was used as a symbol of proud racist hate. Sunlei Jul 2015 #20
TV snooze said, the cams recorded 2 men placing flag at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Sunlei Jul 2015 #22
It's time to give these haters a great big giant shamefest, just like Walter Palmer is getting. Dont call me Shirley Jul 2015 #23
 

hollowdweller

(4,229 posts)
1. Pro flag people are doing a GREAT job showing the confederate flag is not about racisim huh?
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 11:20 AM
Jul 2015

I mean seriously, if there was ANY question before there sure as hell isn't now.

jpak

(41,758 posts)
4. The Latest: Video shows 2 white males placing Confederate flags near MLK center, police say
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 11:39 AM
Jul 2015
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/30/latest-video-shows-2-white-males-placing-confederate-flags-near-mlk-center/

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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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Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
8. Federal authorities are investigating? Seems a bit over the top.
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 12:34 PM
Jul 2015

Those are pieces of cloth, not bombs.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
9. well maybe, just maybe
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 01:05 PM
Jul 2015

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.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
16. true
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:57 PM
Jul 2015

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.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
13. I don't think one fed investigator is over the top seeing that the church is next door to a fed site
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:17 PM
Jul 2015

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)
18. and the words "I'm going to kill you" are just vibrations of air molecules
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:19 PM
Jul 2015

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.

 

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)
12. as a white person, I just gotta roll my eyes at this shit
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:03 PM
Jul 2015

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)
15. I've never seen as many confederate flags mounted in the beds of pickup trucks as I have since this
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 03:37 PM
Jul 2015

whole 'confederate' thing started. Talking mid-michigan here...

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
17. Lot of sympathizers
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 04:03 PM
Jul 2015

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.

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