George Johnson, accused of making threats against Shelby County Commissioner Tami Sawyer, has been booked into the jail in Memphis on an assault charge.
Memphis police confirmed an investigation is underway Friday after a local Black leader was harassed by a White man waving a Confederate flag at the soon-to-be-former grave of the first head of the Ku Klux Klan.
The man is a member of the Confederate 901 group. He has since been identified as George "K-Rack" Johnson and has been accused of covering up a Black Lives Matter mural with bricks, singing "Dixie,"
The process of disinterring Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife from UT Health Sciences Park has begun, years after a statue was removed by the City of