US Confederate flag ‘threats’ to Georgia black family

A group of white men and women driving cars flying the Confederate flag threatened a black family at a child’s birthday party, say prosecutors. Fifteen members of a group Respect the Flag face street gang charges from the incident near Atlanta in late July. Pick-up trucks decorated with the Confederate banner drove past the party […]

A group of white men and women driving cars flying the Confederate flag threatened a black family at a child’s birthday party, say prosecutors.
Fifteen members of a group Respect the Flag face street gang charges from the incident near Atlanta in late July.
Pick-up trucks decorated with the Confederate banner drove past the party in Douglasville and shouting broke out.
Residents told local media the people in the trucks used racial slurs but they say they were attacked.
On Monday the Douglas County district attorney’s office said that, following an investigation, the individuals from Respect the Flag were being charged with violating the state’s law on street gangs and with making “terroristic threats”.
Two of them are also charged with battery in relation to a separate incident at a petrol station the same day.