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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: 2) by tathra on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:14AM

    by tathra (3367) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:14AM (#203162)

    OK, proof that LoRdTAW is a bigot:

    "The confederate flag was explicitly created to represent racial bigotry." -- LoRdTAW June 29, 08:34AM (#202753)

    that's not what "proof" means, nor what "bigot" means. how does pointing out facts make one a bigot? please, do explain.

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  • (Score: 2) by penguinoid on Wednesday July 01 2015, @03:13AM

    by penguinoid (5331) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @03:13AM (#203614)

    Using lies to disparage a large group of people, sounds like bigotry to me.

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    • (Score: 2) by tathra on Wednesday July 01 2015, @11:14AM

      by tathra (3367) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @11:14AM (#203705)

      and who is the large group of people being disparaged with lies here, with a comment about an inanimate object?