Confederate flag press conference derailed by parking issue (FL)
TaMaryn Waters, Tallahassee Democrat
4:45 p.m. EDT August 14, 2015
SANDESTIN ... Dale Landry, president of the Tallahassee Branch of the NAACP, said they planned to make statements, not protest, on a public sidewalk along Highway 98 outside the gates of Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort and Spa.
The group, roughly a dozen, opposes the Confederate stars and bars flag flying at the Walton County Courthouse in DeFuniak Springs, 35 miles north of Sandestin.
Instead of delivering prepared remarks, Landry said the group was forced to scrap their plans. NAACP members, who traveled from Bay, Gadsden, Columbia and Okaloosa counties, were told their cars would be towed if they parked in the Market Shops at Sandestin parking lot.
“I am surprised, but I’m not surprised. But I’m surprised that it happened in South Walton,” Landry said. “We were ready for this in DeFuniak Springs, but I was totally not ready for this in South Walton” ...
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