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Group that waved Confederate flags indicted
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http://fox2now.com/2015/10/15/group-that-waved-confederate-flags-indicted/
Months after a convoy of pickup trucks waving large Confederate flags rumbled past a birthday party in suburban Atlanta, a grand jury has indicted members of the group on terror-related charges.
The indictments charge 15 members of an organization known as Respect the Flag with violating Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and making terroristic threats. If convicted, they could face up to 20 years in prison.
Melissa Alford, who hosted the July birthday party, where many of the attendees were black, said tensions flared when the trucks drove by the home in Douglasville, Georgia. The people holding the flags were also brandishing weapons, she said.
"They used the N-word and said they were going to kill people on my property," Alford told CNN affiliate WSB.
Members of Respect the Flag have described the day's events differently, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that someone at the party threw rocks at them, triggering the altercation.
The group's leader, Levi Bush, who is among the people indicted, declined CNN's request for an interview. Other members of the group could not be reached for comment, and it was not clear whether they had legal representation.
The indictment alleges that Respect the Flag is a "criminal street gang," and that members of the group threatened "to commit a crime of violence" against people at the party, "with the purpose of terrorizing those individuals and in reckless disregard for the risks of causing such terror."
The prosecutor has said he won't discuss details of the case outside court.
"It would be inappropriate for us to get into the facts and details of the case," Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner told reporters this week. "I think that's better reserved for the courtroom."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is representing some of the people who attended the party, praised the prosecutor for pushing forward with the case.
"These cowards chose unarmed African-Americans enjoying a peaceful birthday party to vent their violent racist hatred," Morris Dees, the organization's chief trial counsel, said in a written statement. "This is reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan - modern-day night-riders terrorizing African-Americans in the name of Southern heritage."
Months after a convoy of pickup trucks waving large Confederate flags rumbled past a birthday party in suburban Atlanta, a grand jury has indicted members of the group on terror-related charges.
The indictments charge 15 members of an organization known as Respect the Flag with violating Georgia's Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and making terroristic threats. If convicted, they could face up to 20 years in prison.
Melissa Alford, who hosted the July birthday party, where many of the attendees were black, said tensions flared when the trucks drove by the home in Douglasville, Georgia. The people holding the flags were also brandishing weapons, she said.
"They used the N-word and said they were going to kill people on my property," Alford told CNN affiliate WSB.
Members of Respect the Flag have described the day's events differently, telling the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that someone at the party threw rocks at them, triggering the altercation.
The group's leader, Levi Bush, who is among the people indicted, declined CNN's request for an interview. Other members of the group could not be reached for comment, and it was not clear whether they had legal representation.
The indictment alleges that Respect the Flag is a "criminal street gang," and that members of the group threatened "to commit a crime of violence" against people at the party, "with the purpose of terrorizing those individuals and in reckless disregard for the risks of causing such terror."
The prosecutor has said he won't discuss details of the case outside court.
"It would be inappropriate for us to get into the facts and details of the case," Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner told reporters this week. "I think that's better reserved for the courtroom."
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is representing some of the people who attended the party, praised the prosecutor for pushing forward with the case.
"These cowards chose unarmed African-Americans enjoying a peaceful birthday party to vent their violent racist hatred," Morris Dees, the organization's chief trial counsel, said in a written statement. "This is reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan - modern-day night-riders terrorizing African-Americans in the name of Southern heritage."
Comments
I hope these type of laws make a cold chill run up your spine. If not, you better do some serious soul searching on who benefits from bullsnarkey laws like these.
<crickets> from the media and all branches of the government.
A sign that racial tensions are continuing to escalate into more confrontations between whites and blacks, IMO, to absolutely no one's surprise.
more whites are opening their eyes and tired of watching it , however whites fail to unite and blacks are professionals at it, so we are basically unarmed
if the claims in this case are proven false, that county should be flooded with fed up white America, but it will never happen
A waste of oxygen.
It should be up to the prosecution to prove that a "gang" rather than an organized "special interest group" was involved.
Flag boys driving and are heckled by birthday party group so they stop and play.
Flag boys driving, see birthday party and stop and say heil.
Not worth commenting, IMO unless the whole story is known.
Brad Steele
Obama's plan is working to perfection!
Yep and he was just waiting for those dumb whites to fall into his trap of being home grown terrorists which will effect all whites and their freedoms from unwarranted search and seizure. Kiss the second amendment good bye for your first and fourth amendments are already have been encroached upon!
In other words your firearms with free speech and federal warrants dispose upon whitey is coming.
serf