Post by pavel on Mar 13, 2016 5:12:33 GMT -6
Sometime during the late evening of Feb. 15, 2014, or in the early hours of the next morning, three frat brothers on the University of Mississippi's Oxford campus stumbled under cover of darkness, borrowing the language of court documents, to the on-campus statue of civil rights icon James Meredith.
Fueled by too much alcohol, according to the same court documents, they quietly dropped a noose around the neck of the statue and draped it with an outdated Georgia state flag that included the Confederate battle emblem.
The purpose, the court papers said, was to "create a sensation on campus using a Confederate flag."
Create a sensation it did. Graeme Phillip Harris of Alpharetta, Georgia, subsequently pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students and employees and is serving a six-month prison sentence in North Carolina. A second student, Austin Reed Edenfield, is scheduled to plead to an undisclosed charge March 24 in Oxford. The third former student — all three withdrew from Ole Miss and their Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house shut down — has not been charged.
Read more: www.commercialappeal.com/news/suburbs/desoto/lawsuit-latest-move-in-mississippi-flag-debate-2d03f391-a0ce-428b-e053-0100007f2d4e-371836011.html
Fueled by too much alcohol, according to the same court documents, they quietly dropped a noose around the neck of the statue and draped it with an outdated Georgia state flag that included the Confederate battle emblem.
The purpose, the court papers said, was to "create a sensation on campus using a Confederate flag."
Create a sensation it did. Graeme Phillip Harris of Alpharetta, Georgia, subsequently pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of using a threat of force to intimidate African-American students and employees and is serving a six-month prison sentence in North Carolina. A second student, Austin Reed Edenfield, is scheduled to plead to an undisclosed charge March 24 in Oxford. The third former student — all three withdrew from Ole Miss and their Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house shut down — has not been charged.
Read more: www.commercialappeal.com/news/suburbs/desoto/lawsuit-latest-move-in-mississippi-flag-debate-2d03f391-a0ce-428b-e053-0100007f2d4e-371836011.html