Tension seems to be raising here in the South after South Carolina officials made the decision on removing the state’s Confederate Flag and this morning here in Atlanta,GA another situation has surfaced involving Confederate Flags and one of our nation’s greatest civil rights leaders.
Early this morning, several Confederate Flags were found placed in various places in downtown Atlanta at Martin Luther King’s “King Center” and his family’s church Ebenezer Baptist Church.
According to wsbtv.com,
Atlanta police confirms four small flags were found laying on the property.
Atlanta police chief George Turner says surveillance video showed two white males placing the flags at the King Center and Ebenezer Baptist Church.
According to Turner, surveillance video will be released so the public can help identify the two men.
Warnock called the men “cowardly and misguided individuals” who engaged in activity he called terroristic.
Atlanta police say the people who placed the flags could face charges including criminal trespassing, terroristic threats and littering.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force has arrived on the scene and are investigating this incident.
Warnock said this incident should “get the attention of not only black, but freedom loving people”. He says this act was about hate, and not heritage.
The superintendent of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site says they got a non-specific threat the day before a shooting inside a Charleston church that killed 9 people.
The flags were placed below a poster that states “Black lives matter, hands up,” by a garbage can, on the path the historic MLK site and on the corner near the church, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
This is just sad but I am not surprised. People show their true colors during hard times and with the ruling in South Carolina, this may not be the last time we face an issue like this. Stay tuned to HHS1987 for all your news.
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