CHARLESTON — (Scroll Down For Video) — A protester named Bree Newsombe scaled the flagpole in front of the South Carolina state capitol and took down the Confederate flag.
The black woman climber was arrested as soon as she came down from the 30 foot pole, and a new flag was restored to the original position with an hour.
Also arrested was a 30-year-old white man named as James Ian Tyson. Both are from neighboring North Carolina and have been charged with defacing a monument.
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Mugshot photo via: @ClaraJeffery/twitter
