Five former and current Stone County supervisors are still eligible to hold public office after receiving civil demand letters from the Mississippi State Auditor’s office in September 2021.
MS has new state flag. But pro-Trump Capitol riot shows the past isn t so far away. Isabelle Taft, The Sun Herald
Jan. 9 On Wednesday morning, Mississippi s Senate voted to ratify the state s new flag.
Just hours later, an unidentified man carried the Confederate battle flag into the United States Capitol.
To some Coast legislators and activists who worked to change Mississippi s flag, it was a moment of horror, but also vindication. Though many supporters of the 1894 state flag claim the emblem represents a kind of apolitical Southern heritage, on Wednesday it was carried by a member of a violent mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol in support of a president who counts avowed white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members among his supporters.
Protesters come to the Mississippi State Capitol in support of President Trump
Trump supporters say they will not be enslaved to government Jason Lavoie of Raymond, carries both the retired Mississippi state flag and a Trump flag as he joined a small group of people that protested the constitutional process to affirm President-Elect Joe Biden s victory in the November election at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. The group also called for a revote on the state flag issue that would provide voters a choice of flags. Many of the protestors favored the retired state flag that incorporated a Confederate battle emblem. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) (Source: Rogelio V. Solis)