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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 12:38 PM Jul 2015

Heated confrontation over Confederate flags in Douglasville (GA)

Tyler Estep
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
11:35 a.m. Monday, July 27, 2015

... One video .. shows Douglasville police officers holding back a group of black men and women as at least seven pickup trucks drive off. The trucks’ white passengers wave as the Confederate, American and military flags mounted on the vehicles do the same.

“This is a child’s birthday party,” one woman in the crowd can be heard saying.

A second video shows the trucks gathered on a grassy area, and the n-word can be heard. A woman who shared the video said the trucks were on her property and their passengers were armed and threatened to “kill y’all <n-words>.”

“I don’t mind them riding with their flags but I don’t want them going around threaten<ing> people in their yard like they did mine or harassing folks either,” the woman wrote ...


http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/watch-heated-confrontation-over-confederate-flags-/nm7JH/

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Heated confrontation over Confederate flags in Douglasville (GA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP
They don't even wear their white sheets anymore. n/t BeeBee Jul 2015 #1
I wish everyone would just ignore these idiots. cwydro Jul 2015 #2
 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
2. I wish everyone would just ignore these idiots.
Mon Jul 27, 2015, 01:26 PM
Jul 2015

They want trouble, and if it is denied to them - well, they're just left parading their silly selves with no audience.

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