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I have black family," Beach said.įirefighters are investigating the case as arson. "I don't want people to think I'm one of those crazy southern rednecks that are all against black people. In fact, the burning of an American flag may even be quite lucrative, as in the case of Revolutionary Communist.
While burning a gay pride flag is a hate crime, burning an American flag is free speech. The better known Confederate flag was the battle flag of Robert E. Instead, she continued up and removed the flag before returning to the ground. A black woman was about halfway up the more than 30-foot steel flagpole just after dawn Saturday when State Capitol police told her to come down. Pride for his southern heritage kept the flag in the front of his house, where it flew alongside the American flag. Individuals across America are being charged and convicted with hate crimes for burning the rainbow flag, which represents gay pride. The Confederate flag has been temporarily removed from in front of the South Carolina Statehouse. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran, both Republicans, on Wednesday called for the Mississippi state flag to be changed.
I don't talk to anybody and for someone to come and do that, it's disrespectful," he said. Robert Bentley (R) ordered the removal of the Confederate battle flag and three other Confederate symbols from the State Capitol grounds Wednesday. No, Adolfo Martinez did not actually hurt or assault anybody in the process. He believes the recent movement against the Confederate flag after the Charleston Church shooting may have motivated someone, but if there was an issue, he says he didn't know about it. An Iowa man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Wednesday for stealing and burning a churchs rainbow LGBT pride flag. "Pretty upset and kind of upset to see someone go that far, like come on," Beach told NewsChannel 3. The flag's legality was called to question when a picture of Roof posing with the flag was released and the debate was reignited. Keiffer Beach says he never had any problems flying his Confederate flag outside of his Silverleaf Drive home until last week when someone took it and then burned it. After the horrific June 17 shooting of nine African-Americans by Dylann Roof, the senate in South Carolina passed a bill that banned the Confederate flag from being flown over the State Capitol.