A grand jury in Georgia last week indicted 15 people on terror-related charges for purposely driving past a Black child’s birthday party in July where many of the attendees were Black waving large Confederate flags, brandishing weapons and yelling threats and racial epithets.
The grand jury indictments in Douglas County, just west of Atlanta, charged 15 members of the organization Respect the Flag with violating Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and making terroristic threats.
According to District Attorney Brian Fortner, the charges carry 20-year prison sentences, and most of the suspects have been arrested. The indictment alleges that Respect the Flag is a “criminal street gang” that threatened “to commit a crime of violence with the purpose of terrorizing those individuals and in reckless disregard for the risks of causing such terror.”
