'Yankees' arrested for removing Confederate flag while visiting Deep South



Two ‘Yankee’ tourists visiting South Carolina met with some good old fashioned ‘Southern justice’ after they removed two Confederate flags in protest of their racist legacy.

The South Carolina Secessionist Party’s weekly display of Southern flags on Saturday upset Lydia Folckomer, who decided to break two of them off of a parked truck and make a getaway.

Party founder James Bessenger shot off after the 22-year-old New Yorker. Lydia’s 50-year-old father Paul Folckomer reportedly tried to “manhandle” Bessenger to stop him from chasing his daughter, according to a post on the party’s Facebook page.

Both daughter and father were arrested. Lydia was charged with malicious injury to real property and Paul was charged with simple assault.

“The moral of the story? Make the Yankees pay for their crimes when they come to our state, break our laws and attempt to dishonor our ancestors,” the group said on Facebook.

The two will appear in court on July 22, with the Secessionist Party calling on its “members, supporters and flaggers” to be there on the day “to show their support, flags in hand.”

The party is currently planning to raise the Confederate flag over the State House in July during a four-hour rally, being organized to mark the first anniversary of its removal from the building.

READ MORE: Dixie down: S. Carolina lawmakers vote to remove Confederate flag

While South Carolina lawmakers have branded the move as “crazy” and said it “defies logical and common sense,” they also say the group has “the right of free expression” to do it.

Legislators came under intense pressure to remove the flag following the fatal shooting of nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015 by white 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who had posted several pictures online posing with the Confederate flag.

READ MORE: S. Carolina church shooting suspect arrested; identified as Dylann Storm Roof, 21

In the aftermath of the flag’s removal in 2015, members of the New Black Panther Party and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) clashed during rallies at the state house over opposing views on the flag’s presence.



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Hang 'em High!

Can anyone spot my home state flag ?

The one that should have been flying on our capital

an Idiot shoots a Bunch of People,and a Bunch of even Bigger Idiots ban a Flag in Retaliation!

Just goes to show how much "history" class is omitted in the school system.

You can say that again. I knew, (raised as a Yankee ), that the battle flag is a battle flag & the reasons why, there was a Civil War, when I was 8 yrs old.

It is just pitiful & scary now... What is NOT being taught.

To the victors go the spools of war .

the debate of the reasons for civil war and the offensiveness of the rebel flag will go on forever

regardless, stealing is stealing, if its not yours , don't bother it

Stealing another person's property is wrong even if that property is a Confederate battle flag.

No one banned a flag.

Typical lib mentality...
Thinking there's any justification for thievery.

Damn Yankees!

say WHAT?

Ted Nugent best work! Yea these poor eastcoasters have been misinformed. Bit if they don't mind going to jail, that's ok by me.

Typical "anti-lib" mentality...failing to notice that EVERY group has self-righteous idiots like this.

There we go.
Justification, *because*, someone else
committed a wrong.

Must be one of those "fair share" things.

Sure is ...after all lead is still a commodity .

You still have trouble noodling things through I see.

No "justification." I was pointing out that your earlier post was nothing but simple bias, since you failed to note that not JUST liberals do this.

EVERYONE who does, should be treated the same.

Please read more carefully.

Those idiots/ pawns / SJW's.. Whatever...

Wanted to get arrested. And probably paid to.
They think it is about race. Just like they, want to believe the Civil War was about race.

It has & always will be about succession.

And finding a reason to stop it, even if that means creating more division.

i only point out the libs...don't really care about the rest...