Monday, June 20, 2016

Scuffle over Confederate flags at Charleston Battery lands two tourists in jail

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Lydia Folckomer and Paul Folckomer

A scuffle over Confederate flags Saturday at The Battery landed two tourists in jail.

The S.C. Secessionist Party was putting on its weekly display of Southern flags. A woman walking by broke two small Confederate flags off a parked truck and ran away with them, according to a Charleston police report. Party founder James Bessenger, 27, took off running after her.

A man stepped in front of Bessenger and kept grabbing him so he couldn’t chase the young woman, according to the report. Police were called.

Police identified the woman who broke off the flags as Lydia Folckomer, 22, of Brooklyn, N.Y. She told officers she grabbed the flags because they upset her.

The man who grabbed Bessenger was identified as her father, Paul Folckomer, 50, of Brevard, N.C. He told officers he grabbed Bessenger to keep him from chasing his daughter.

The daughter was charged with malicious injury to real property. Her father was charged with simple assault. They spent the night in jail and were released on bail Sunday afternoon.

The party posted an account of the incident on their Facebook page.

“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.”


This story by  Dave Munday @ The Post and Courier

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