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struggle4progress

(118,345 posts)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 08:38 PM Jul 2015

Confederate flags stolen from historical marker (SC)


July 20, 2015
By Allen Wallace

... Someone took the flags from the Jefferson Davis Highway marker on U.S. Highway 1 between Kitti Wake Drive and Timbermill Drive sometime late Friday night or early Saturday morning, according to Adam Myrick, public information officer with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department. Two of the three flagpoles stood empty Monday evening, while a third held remains of a flag that appeared to have been ripped from its position. The Jefferson Davis Highway marker and the flagpoles sit next to the Sycamore Tree historical marker ...

http://coladaily.com/2015/07/20/confederate-flags-stolen-from-historical-marker/
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Confederate flags stolen from historical marker (SC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP
When a crime happened in my old neighborhood(s) Glassunion Jul 2015 #1

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
1. When a crime happened in my old neighborhood(s)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 08:50 PM
Jul 2015

Unless someone was murdered, pretty much you could guarantee that the police would do nothing.

I hope the police in the area give it the same attention, that a simple stabbing or assault would get in my old neighborhoods of Chicago or North Philly. Nothing, zero, nada, etc...

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