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October 13, 2015

Georgia: Indictments Filed Against 15 Confederate Flag Supporters 
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And in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville, Georgia, the district
attorney has won indictments against 15 Confederate flag supporters on
charges of making terroristic threats and participating in "criminal
gang activity." The unusual move comes after a group of African-American
partygoers said members of the white group, which calls itself Respect
the Flag, threatened them with a crowbar and other weapons and yelled
racial slurs. Meanwhile, in Texas, all of the more than 170 bikers
rounded up and detained following a mass gang shooting in May outside a
Waco restaurant have been released. Five months after nine people were
killed in the shooting, none of the bikers has been charged with the
murders, and only 22 remain on ankle monitoring.

 

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