Posted on 06/28/2015 7:19:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
FLINT, MI An artist/protester has been arrested after taking down the Confederate flag in South Carolina, and Flint-area filmmaker Michael Moore has offered to pay for her bail and legal fees.
According to NBC News, two activists were arrested Saturday morning after one removed the Confederate flag from a pole outside South Carolina's Statehouse in Columbia.
Reports say Brittany Ann Byuarium Newsome, of Raleigh, N.C., climbed the pole around 6:15 a.m. and unhooked the flag, according to a statement by the South Carolina Department of Public Safety Bureau of Protective Services. James Ian Tyson, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was inside the fence helping her. The flag was replaced with a new flag within an hour, according to the statement.
Newsome and Tyson were both arrested and charged with defacing a monument, and face a fine of up to $5,000 or three years in prison.
Michael Moore used his Twitter account to offer...
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Blubber Butt Moore always waddles out at the worse possible time.
The man is like gas to a fire on hot political issues.
Famous fat Michael Moore... A miser except for the cause of his own personal luxury,
With all his hundreds of millions, his enormous houses, cars, and armed guards wrought from disarming us, increasing our energy bills, and encouraging terrorists,
Finally gives a few shekels away... Maybe a few hundred bucks,
And has his high-dollar Public Relations team tell us all about it.
When will Sea Shepherd return this whale to the oceans?
Because obviously it got beached, and is suffering mental breakdown.
I hope the anti Confederate flag bandwagon has heavy duty springs
Well you know the movement has jumped the shark when media whore Michael Moore arrives. Hey, maybe we should start saying, it jumped the Moore.
No, Michael, this chick digs fat liberals, but she still won’t sleep with you.
the media keeps referring to Fat Mikey as Flint Area Filmaker for what reason???
Will he be paying for her birth control pills too?
Brittany Ann Byuarium Newsome,..or “bree”...should move to Chicago and join Farraklowns CULT!!
Don’t feed into his ego. Ignore him.
Poor Mikey.
Desperate to be relevant again.
Sorry, your 15 minutes expired long, long ago...
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