(VIDEO) Black activist and cohort arrested for removing SC state flag "in the name of Jesus"
buzzz worthy. . . Bree Newsome and James Ian Tyson were arrested in Columbia, SC in association with the removal of the Confederate Flag on the grounds of the state capital. Allegedly, millions of dollars have been raised online for the defense of Dylan Rooth, the South Carolina man who confessed to killing the "Emanuel 9." Who is going to raise money to free Bree Newsome? She's going to need it should she go to trial for performing a daring act in South Carolina that will also go down in the annals of history. Early Saturday morning, just as the sun was breaking (June 27) Newsome scaled the flagpole at the South Carolina State Capital to pull down the confederate flag as Tyson stood by as a watchman. "In the name of Jesus this flag has to come down," the activist from Charlotte, NC yelled as an officer from the South Carolina Bureau of Protective Services threatened to use a taser. "You come against me with hate, prejudice ...