{"id":2848,"date":"2015-07-01T02:07:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T02:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/black-protesters-make-pro-confederate-attackers-see-stars-a-bars\/"},"modified":"2015-07-01T02:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T02:07:57","slug":"black-protesters-make-pro-confederate-attackers-see-stars-a-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/01\/black-protesters-make-pro-confederate-attackers-see-stars-a-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK PROTESTERS MAKE PRO-CONFEDERATE ATTACKERS SEE STARS & BARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Brawl\"The only arrest where a group of thirty Black protesters were attacked – and got the best of their attackers – was of the neo-Confederate rag supporter who police say instigated the brawl. <\/h3>\n

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Associated Press<\/a><\/h2>\n

COLUMBIA, SC – Two blocks of the street in front of the Statehouse was closed for a brief time during the disturbance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Nicholas Thompson<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Nicholas Thompson, 25, of Irmo, South Carolina, has been charged with disorderly conduct. It wasn’t clear if he has an attorney.<\/p>\n

The Confederate flag has been a focus of protests since the fatal shooting of nine people at a historic black church in Charleston on June 17.<\/span><\/p>\n

Public Safety Director Leroy Smith told reporters it was unfortunate that Columbia had a fight when there have been no problems reported in Charleston, where the shooting occurred.<\/p>\n

The suspect in the Charleston shooting, Dylann Storm Roof, appears in a number of photographs online with the Confederate flag, prompting calls for removal of the flag from in front of the Statehouse.<\/p>\n

South Carolina lawmakers are expected next week to consider proposals to take the flag down and move it to a museum.<\/p>\n

The flag has flown at the Statehouse since the 1960s. It was removed from the Statehouse dome and placed at a Confederate Soldier Monument in front of the Statehouse in 2000.<\/p>\n