From The Guardian 27 June 2015
Activist pulls down Confederate flag in front of South Carolina statehouse
An activist in South Carolina climbed a flagpole in Columbia early on Saturday morning and removed the Confederate flag flying in front of the capitol building. The womanâs action came a day after President Barack Obama gave the eulogy for a black pastor who was murdered by an apparent white supremacist along with eight other people in a Charleston church last week.
Bree Newsome, an activist organizer from North Carolina successfully took the flag down, before 6:am. She and James Dyson were arrested when she returned to the ground and taken to detention.
Power to the people.