none of them are helping to get this thing going. i think i ve got someone coming in to get the thing down, but i don t know if i ll ever get to the bottom of it. it sucks. the controversy over a confederate flag continues tonight. justin and i have tried to exhaust all reasonable avenues, and it s just not working. tommy daris is now threatening to remove the flag and confederate marker himself. maurice bessen jr planned it just so he could shove that flag up everybody s ass in the city of orangeburg for eternity. he said he sent the sons of confederacy want their flag they need to come get it from the property. is the city going to be okay with that? no, so they better get the asses
my name is tommy daris. we re in edisto river creamery. big old quarter pounders, all beef. when i bought the creamery, i saw it was in a beautiful park. i said, what s not to like? what kind of ice cream, honey, did you want? enjoy, baby. thank you. but, if i could rewind this whole situation, i would never have come to south carolina in the first place. made a little ice cream shop to sell ice cream cones in the middle of a park, and here i am in the middle of this crap. battle over a confederate
flag in orangeburg. the flag flies atop this sign. but the flag is not owned by this ice cream parlor. the sons of confederate veterans own the tiny piece of property where the flag stands. that flag is not mine. it s a piece of property that the confederate veterans own. initially, daris accepted the flag, but that changed in the aftermath of the church shooting in charleston. nine people have been killed inside an african-american church. dylan roof. a photo of him posing with a confederate flag. after the charleston shooting, the confederate veterans came down with a flag that was three times as large as
everyone in town assumed it was my property. it looks like it s attached to this building. i know it s unfortunate to him. but we will not shop here because of this flag. reporter: maurice bessinger s battle for the flag rages on. daris has hired a lawyer. that flag needs to be moved. reporter: the sons of the confederate veterans say they re ready. not as long as we re alive. reporter: cnn, orangeburg, south carolina. thanks for watching this hour. our top stories are ahead. i m natalie allen. it s our little differences, that can make a world of difference. expedia, everything in one place,
politician, activist and founder of maurice s barbecue. he showed off his collection of confederate memorabilia. he was a fierce defender of state s rights and segregation. in his 2004 auto biography. he called the civil rights act unconstitutional and the supreme court ruling that integrated public schools a really bad decision. then in 2000, when this happened at the south carolina state capita. i raised the flag out here to protest the take down of our heritage flag. reporter: maurice bessinger died in 2014. of the flags outside his stores he wrote, there they will stay, i will fight on, because this is what god wants me to do. a year after his death, tommy daris and his wife bought the orangeburg location from bessinger s children, but not all of it. before he died, bessinger sold a