Pastor: Confederate Flags At Ebenezer A ‘Terroristic Threat’
Surveillance cameras caught images of two white males laying Confederate battle flags on the ground near the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s church, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether they had committed a crime.
Atlanta police Chief George Turner said Thursday his officers are working with federal authorities and hadn’t determined what charges might be sought. Turner said they had not ruled out a hate crime, though Georgia has no state hate crimes law.
The Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, called placing the four flags on church grounds a “terroristic threat.”
But two former Georgia prosecutors said simply placing the flags doesn’t amount to a terroristic threat in the eyes of the law.
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