2 Jailed Over Confederate Flag Fight in South Carolina

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Source: Associated Press

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Jun 20, 2016, 3:17 PM ET

Authorities say two tourists visiting South Carolina were arrested over the weekend in a dispute over the Confederate flag.

Local media outlets report the South Carolina Secessionist Party was putting on its weekly display Saturday of Southern flags when a woman broke two small Confederate flags off a parked truck and ran away with them.

James Bessenger, founder of the party, ran after her. Police say the woman's father told them he grabbed Bessenger to stop him from chasing his daughter.

Twenty-two-year-old Lydia Folckomer of Brooklyn, New York, has been charged with malicious injury to real property. Police say she told them she grabbed the flags because she was upset by them.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/jailed-confederate-flag-fight-south-carolina-39998053

[Jake Stern]

1. Can't go around breaking shit because it offends you

That's a crime and you'll go to jail.

Jeebus, whatever happened to expressing your disgust by flipping people the bird?

[FLPanhandle]

2. Lots of things upset people

Doesn't mean society should breakdown with everyone going after anything that offends them.

[EL34x4]

3. Appears Ms. Folckomer is an aspiring actress.

https://www.backstage.com/lydiafolckomer/

This is good publicity.

[Hoppy]

4. Looking at her video, I hope she has a day job.

[Judi Lynn]

5. The imbecile who drags his putrid flags around with him is hoping to get reactions

since he knows sane people abhor what they represent,

It's his way of getting attention in a state already overrun by hate-spewing perverts.

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