Mississippi man bombs local Wal-Mart because they won’t sell confederate flags.
According to The Washington Post a longtime fanatic of the Mississippi State flag threw an explosive into the local Wal-Mart on Sunday morning because they refused to sell the confederate battle flag. He is named Marshall. E. Leonard, is 61 years old and comes from Tupelo, Mississippi. He was arrested and was charged on Tuesday for his crimes of “detonating on explosive” inside said store. Aguirre told the press “He’s a strong supporter of keeping that flag flying”. In a way the man wants to keep history alive and detonating Wal-Mart was his way of doing that. This flag is to support racist groups and it was to be taken out of display for those specific reasons. The Washington Post says this was due to the shooting in a black church in Charleston. This became a controversial topic as the alleged shooter was posing with the flag in a photo. The question is was it really necessary to blow the place up “to keep a flag flying”?
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