My new hero Bree Newsome

[LynneSin]

This whole 'we need 2/3rd votes to take it down' is bullshit.

Governor Haley could just order it down and it is the right thing to do yet she caters to the racist right who wants to keep it flying.

Updating because we have a name!

[JaneyVee]

1. That brave woman is:

https://mobile.twitter.com/BreeNewsome

Amazing!

[underahedgerow]

33. Michael Moore just tweeted offering to pay her bail and all her legal fees.

Does my heart good all of this.

I worked for Gay Mecca, the City of West Hollywood, for over 10 years and still have many friends there. This is a great day for the USA.

[JaneyVee]

35. Great news!

[Laurian]

2. It was a woman!

Makes me proud.

[marym625]

3. Bree Newsome

Bree Newsome was about halfway up the more than 30-foot steel flagpole just after dawn Saturday when State Capitol police told her to come down. Instead, she continued climbing and removed the flag before returning to the ground.

Different story from excerpt above

MEDIA & CULTURE

Keep It Down: Brittany ‘Bree’ Newsome Removes Confederate Flag After Scaling South Carolina Statehouse Flagpole, Inspires Hashtag

By Dion Rabouin@DionRabouinon June 27 2015 8:31 AM EDT

http://www.ibtimes.com/keep-it-down-brittany-bree-newsome-removes-confederate-flag-after-scaling-south-1986767

[mnhtnbb]

7. Story has been removed!

[marym625]

8. What the heck! ,

It was just there

Sorry. Thanks for letting me know. I will edit

[mnhtnbb]

11. You can get to the twitter page though shown in #6

[marym625]

16. I just put a different story in there

I had already tweeted it. The OP originally didn't have the name. That's why the first few replies are giving her the name, Bree Newsome

But I appreciate it!

[peacebird]

4. Bree Newsome!

[mnhtnbb]

5. Good for her!

[DinahMoeHum]

6. More pics here. . .

And still more at this hashtag #freebree
https://twitter.com/hashtag/freebree?src=hash

[Fairgo]

9. Thats how its done

much respect for showing us the way

[RichGirl]

10. In a way she did them a favor....

Now they can just leave it down and ignore the situation. No one needs to vote or say something that will hurt them politically.

Now someone needs to put a smiley face flag in it's place. You know...the one invented by good ole' southern boy Forrest Gump!

Those cops could easily have put the flag back...wonder why they didn't? Obviously none of them wanted to be held responsible for putting it up.

[heaven05]

31. The irony is

two black cops arresting a POC who pulled down a symbol of white racist hate. I just get amazed at how fucked up this country is.

[csziggy]

38. Her attorneys should insist that the flag is evidence

And must be kept in storage for the trial! Of course, that wouldn't stop some white supremacist group from getting another one to put up - but another activist could take it down, too.

I wish she had put up a Juneteenth flag in it's place: http://www.juneteenthflag.com/

[madokie]

12. Mine too

[mountain grammy]

13. Good Job!

[malthaussen]

14. Fortunately, she didn't suffer the fate of Elmer Ellsworth

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-death-of-colonel-ellsworth-878695/?no-ist

-- Mal

[DinahMoeHum]

15. Here's Brittany "Bree": Newsome's website. . .

Like Rosa Parks before her, this was not a spontaneous act, nor was it her first activism. But it may well be the act for which she makes social justice history:

http://www.breenewsome.com/

and her bio:
http://www.breenewsome.com/#!about/c13dn

[malaise]

24. Lovely

[mnhtnbb]

29. Quite a talented and creative woman.

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

[DCBob]

18. Good.. but is it still down or did they just put it back up?

The whole legal issue of getting congress to vote on it is such BS. Just order it down and deal with the legal issues later.

[longship]

19. Wonderful R&K nt

[myrna minx]

20. She is very brave especially considering how trigger happy many police are

when dealing with black lives.

[rurallib]

26. that was one of my first thought also

[handmade34]

21. hooray!

[secondvariety]

22. Good for her.

Now let's see if they have the gall to put it back up. I'm guessing they won't.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Recondo!

That woman has gams and guts. She is a true hero.

[rurallib]

25. hope she has a gofundme page to get bail and fine money.

[KeepItReal]

27. She shows us how it's done. Bree Newsome. Amazing.

[Brickbat]

28. DOING THE DAMN THING.

[heaven05]

30. Bravo to both these

brave individuals, Bree Newsome and James Ian Dyson. It is more than fitting that two of different races contributed to this act of defiance, I give props where props are due and it is symbolic that a POC did this act of defiance to the racist ideals of nikki and her neo-confederate allies. Nikki? Lip service. Bree? Walking the walk.

[Cha]

32. Confederate flag raised again at South Carolina Statehouse after woman climbs pole to remove it

but, Bree climbed and got it down for about an hour.. how symbolic!



http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/woman-removes-confederate-flag-s-statehouse-grounds-article-1.2273299

[csziggy]

39. Did they put the same flag back up?

Because the flag that Bree Newsome removed is evidence and should be kept by the police or the court until her trial is over. Her attorneys should require that.

Force the white supremacists who insist on this divisive monument to replace it - over and over and over.

[Go Vols]

41. It was a new one

[csziggy]

42. Oh, well, another opportunity to take it down! n/t

[me b zola]

34. Bree Awesome!

[DrewFlorida]

36. Way To Go Bree Newsome! I applaud you!

[nolabear]

37. I'm betting a run on baby girls named Grace and Bree. She puts the "act" in "activist!"

[demmiblue]

44. Also: Elena, Ruth and Sonia!

[wcmagumba]

40. Act of Courage!

Wish she had put a Rainbow flag in its place...

[MohRokTah]

43. #FreeBree

Her legal defense fund is being raised here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bail-for-bree-newsome/#/story

[BrotherIvan]

45. She is an amazing climber

Too bad they just HAD to put it back up.

[appal_jack]

46. Huge k&r: civil disobedience at its finest. nt