A Couple Got Married at a Georgia Confederate Flag Rally
In DepthConfederate flag supporters spent this past weekend rallying at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, where everyone agreed that the flag is about “heritage, not hate,” and where undercover police reportedly marched with protesters, intervening when a counter-protester made fun of the event. Also, a couple named Timothy and Autumn Crosswhite were married under the banner you see above.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, local police said the Confederate flag rally was “mostly peaceful,” blaming any disturbance on one counter-protester who was “followed some of the flag enthusiasts on their hike up the mountain, trading insults, which almost led to a fight” police spokesman John Bankhead told the paper. Undercover officers who were on the hike intervened, he added, “although it took a minute for the police to establish their authority,” evidently because the counter-protester didn’t believe they were cops.
At the same time, as the AJC reports, in a piece we saw via Fusion, the Crosswhites were wed, reasoning that all their friends would be there anyway: