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posted by janrinok on Monday June 29 2015, @03:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the big-brass-ones dept.

Courthouse News Service reports

A woman climbed a flagpole and cut down the Confederate flag in front of the South Carolina statehouse Saturday before promptly being arrested and seeing the banner raised again less than an hour later.

Bree Newsome, dressed in climbing gear, spoke respectfully with police gathered at the base of the flag pole as she continued to move ever closer to the flag. A video of her climb captures Newsome, a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, talking to police from about two-thirds the way up the 30-foot pole, evidently acknowledging her imminent arrest.

"I know sir. I'm prepared", she says.

"Ma'am, come down off the pole", the officers yell as passing motorists honked their horns at the scene.

"You cannot get to me with hatred and oppression and violence", Newsome shouted as she cut the flag down. "In the name of God, this flag comes down today."

The New York Daily News identifies the woman as Brittany Ann Byuarium (Bree) Newsome of Charlotte, NC and continues

[...] When she reached the bottom, State Police took the flag out of her hands and arrested her. Another North Carolina activist, James Tyson, climbed over the four-foot wrought-iron fence and held the pole to make sure Newsome didn't fall, Lewis said. He was arrested alongside Newsome as a group of onlookers cheered off camera. The 30-year-olds were charged with defacing a monument on state Capitol grounds, a misdemeanor that can bring up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

A judge ordered $3,000 bond for each of them and said they were free to travel to other states.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by mendax on Monday June 29 2015, @06:39AM

    by mendax (2840) on Monday June 29 2015, @06:39AM (#202668)

    It seems that South Carolina needs reconquered once again to remind those nutcases once again that they lost the Civil War. The adage coined by James Petigru, one of its senators I believe in 1861, when South Carolina left the union remains an accurate statement today: "South Carolina is too small to be a state and too large to be an insane asylum." The war is over, the South lost, live with it.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @01:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @01:43PM (#202786)

    > The war is over, the South lost, live with it.

    The South didn't lose, the slavers lost. Plenty of people in the South were not on board with fighting for the right of the rich to keep slaves, they just didn't have economic clout to impose their will on their neighbors. It is important to stop giving the slavers and racists false legitimacy by conflating their loss with a defeat for South as a whole. The rest of the South actually won when the slavers lost.

    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:15PM

      by Immerman (3985) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:15PM (#203319)

      >The rest of the South actually won when the slavers lost.

      Well, that might have been true, if not for the carpet-baggers and other exploitation levied against the South following their defeat. Not to mention all the friends and family who lost their lives after being drafted by the Confederate army. Being on the losing side of a drawn-out shooting war is rarely a victory, no matter whose ideology you might support.