IN A VERY RARE CASE IN THE UNITED STATES,
A GROUP OF NON-MUSLIMS HAS BEEN
CHARGED WITH MAKING TERRORISTIC THREATS.
IT IS A GROUP OF CONFEDERATE FLAG
SUPPORTERS WHO WERE CHARGED BACK IN JULY.
THESE INDIVIDUALS
WANTED TO SUPPORT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG, THEY HAVE AN
ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS RESPECT THE FLAG.
WHAT THEY DID IS,
THEY DROVE THROUGH A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD AS A BLACK CHILD
WAS HAVING A BIRTHDAY PARTY, AND THEY STARTED MAKING THREATS
TOWARDS THE PARTYGOERS.
AS A RESULT, THEY HAVE BEEN INDICTED
FOR MAKING TERRORISTIC THREATS.
"MONDAY'S INDICTMENT BY THE
DOUGLAS COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY CALLED THE FLAG GROUP A CRIMINAL
STREET GANG, AND ACCUSED ITS MEMBERS OF PARTICIPATING IN
CRIMINAL GANG ACTIVITY ON THAT DATE.
THE GROUP MEMBERS WERE
CHARGED WITH MAKING TERRORISTIC
THREATS AGAINST THE PARTYGOERS."
I WILL GET INTO DETAILS ABOUT THE WEAPONS THEY HAD AND
THE THREATS THEY MADE, BUT THERE WAS A VIDEO RELEASED ONLINE
I WANT TO SHOW YOU FIRST.
IT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF THE ATMOSPHERE.
>> IF I SEE YOU ALL AGAIN.
>> HE THE ONE WHO HAS THE GUN.
>> THAT IS A THREAT.
IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO HIM AFTER
THIS SITUATION ñ
>> HEY, HEY, HEY!
>> OKAY, SO AT THAT POINT POLICE HAD ALREADY ARRIVED.
BEFORE THE
POLICE SHOWED UP, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF EXCHANGES AND THREATS,
ALLEGEDLY, MADE.
I DON'T HAVE EVIDENCE OF THOSE THREATS, BUT
THEY WERE ALLEGEDLY MADE.
ACCORDING TO THE PARTYGOERS, ONE
HAD A GUN AND WAS SAYING HE WAS
GOING TO KILL THE [RACIAL SLUR].
AND THEN ANOTHER ONE SAID GIVE
ME THE GUN, I WILL SHOOT THEM [RACIAL SLUR].
APPARENTLY THE GROUP DRIVES AROUND WITH FLAGS AND SELLS
THEM TO RAISE MONEY TO DONATE AMERICAN FLAGS TO PEOPLE
WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEM.
RIGHT.
>> LET ME GET THE IRONY OF THIS.
YOU ARE SELLING CONFEDERATE
FLAGS TO RAISE MONEY TO GIVE
AWAY THE FLAG THAT THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE CONFEDERATE FLAG
REVOLTED AGAINST: THE AMERICAN FLAG.
THE FACT THAT THEY DON'T
REALIZE THE IRONY IS AMAZING.
THEY ALL THINK THEY ARE BEING
PATRIOTIC.
THE CONFEDERATE FLAG IS THE LEAST PATRIOTIC FLAG IN
THE ENTIRE WORLD.
SECOND OF ALL, WHAT DOES SELLING
CONFEDERATE FLAGS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH GOING TO A YOUNG
PERSON'S BIRTHDAY PARTY WHO IS BLACK?
YOU THINK THEY WERE GOING
TO BUY FLAGS AT THAT PARTY?
>> THEY DID IT TO INTIMIDATE THEM.
THEY WENT THROUGH A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD TO MAKE A
POINT, AND THEY DID IT TO INTIMIDATE THEM.
LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXACT STATEMENT FROM ONE OF THESE
PEOPLE DRIVING AROUND WITH THE CONFEDERATE FLAGS.
"WE INFORMED THAT OTHER GROUP THAT WE DID HAVE GUNS IN
OUR VEHICLES, AND IF NEED BE, WE COULD GO GET THEM."
IS THAT NOT A THREAT?
>> WE'RE BACK TO OLD SCHOOL NOW.
WE'RE BACK TO THE KLAN DAYS,
WHERE GUYS WRAPPED THEMSELVES WITH CONFEDERATE
FLAGS, AND THEY WOULD COME ONTO A LAWN AND INTO YOUR HOUSE AND
WOULD SAY, WE CAN GO GET OUR WEAPONS IF YOU WANT.
THEY
BURNED THE CROSSES AS A WARNING.
YOU THINK BURNING CROSSES ARE
BAD, WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE WHAT WEíLL DO TO YOU AFTERWARDS.
AND THEY
WOULD, THEY WOULD DO THE
LYNCHING IN THE OLD DAYS.
HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS, THE COPS
CAME AND THEY WERE ON THE SIDE
OF THE BLACK FOLKS IN THIS CASE.
THEY WERE PROTECTING THE
AFRICAN-AMERICANS FROM THE CLEAR RACISTS THAT WERE THERE
TO INTIMIDATE THEM.
THAT IS AN AWESOME DEVELOPMENT, IT TOOK
DECADES AND DECADES FOR US TO GET THERE.
NOW, OFTEN TIMES YOU
SEE POLICE VIOLENCE TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE, BUT IN THIS CASE
THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ISSUE AND THEY ARE PROTECTING
THE CITIZENS.
IN THE OLD DAYS,
WHEN THE KLAN ATTACKED, THEY WERENíT SOME STUPID, POWERLESS REDNECKS
LIKE THESE GUYS.
POWERLESS IN
LIKE, THESE GUYS AREN'T CEOíS.
THEY HAVE WEAPONS, SO YOU STILL NEED
TO BE CAREFUL.
BUT IN THE OLD DAYS,
THE KLAN WAS THE LEADERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
THEY HAD ALL THE
POWER.
THEY WORE THE HOODS SO THAT YOU COULDNíT TELL THAT THEY WERE
THE MAYOR, THE CHIEF OF POLICE,
WHOEVER.
IMAGINE.
NOW, A TERRORISTIC THREAT JUST MEANS
THAT YOU MADE A THREAT AGAINST SOMEBODY'S PERSON.
A PHYSICAL
THREAT.
SOME OF THESE OTHER GUYS WERE LATER ARRESTED FOR
BATTERY AT A DIFFERENT ALTERCATION IN A DIFFERENT PART
OF TOWN, SO THAT'S WHY THEY SAY
THESE GUYS ARE A GANG.
>> BY THE WAY, THAT DIFFERENT ALTERCATION HAPPENED ON THE SAME
DAY.
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, AND THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED.
>> DON'T TELL ME THE CONFEDERATE FLAG IS YOUR HERITAGE.
THAT'S WHY I DROVE INTO A BLACK PARTY WITH MY TRUCKS, AND
TOLD THEM I CAN GO TO MY WEAPONS.
JUST MY HERITAGE.
WELL, UNFORTUNATELY SOME PART OF THAT IS TRUE, IT IS THEIR
HERITAGE TO INTIMIDATE AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
THAT'S A HERITAGE WE WANT TO CHANGE.