Mississippi flag backer accused of tossing bomb in Wal-Mart
Source: Associated Press
Mississippi flag backer accused of tossing bomb in Wal-Mart
Updated 5:33 pm, Monday, November 2, 2015
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) A man who's known for flying a 4-foot-long Mississippi state flag on his car has been accused of bombing a Wal-Mart because the chain stopped selling the flag, the police chief said Monday.
The explosive made a loud bang but did no damage when it was thrown early Sunday into the 24-hour Wal-Mart in Tupelo, Police Chief Bart Aguirre said Monday. He said bomb technicians reported that the package held enough explosive to damage the store if it had been assembled differently.
Marshall E. Leonard of Tupelo, a northeast Mississippi city of 34,500, was jailed on a charge of detonating an explosive, and police were searching his car and home, Aguirre said.
Wal-Mart is among retailers that stopped selling merchandise bearing reproductions of the Confederate battle flag which makes up the upper left section of the Mississippi state flag after the June 17 killing of nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Mississippi-flag-backer-accused-of-tossing-bomb-6606072.php
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forest444
(5,902 posts)I'm just glad Ike, Everett Dirksen, Nelson Rockefeller, and all the other good Republicans that helped move this country forward a couple of generations ago aren't around to see this.
Aristus
(66,478 posts)They may as well be wearing signs...
forest444
(5,902 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)You'd think the consequences of this action might have crossed his mind before he did this. He doesn't look very healthy, so maybe he didn't care.
packman
(16,296 posts)He'll have more friends, be living rent-free, 3 squares a day, health care and as many tattoos as he wants.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Where are the rest of the charges? Stuff like "risking a catastrophe" or "making terroristic threats" or "criminal trespass" or "vandalism" or "destruction of property"?
(probably because he wasn't a POC )