Woman Pleads Guilty in Confederate Flag Case in Florida

[struggle4progress]

By: Associated Press
December 22, 2015

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A woman accused of placing a Confederate flag on a black co-worker's desk has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal officer.

U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley said Tuesday that 58-year-old Susan Thompson faces a possible five-year prison sentence.

Prosecutors say Thompson, who is white, placed an image of the flag on the desk of a co-worker with whom she'd had a contentious relationship at their Jacksonville office for the Army Corps of Engineers. That was in June, one week after nine people were killed at a historically black church in Charleston ...

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[yeoman6987]

1. 5 years? I hate that flag and think it was a nasty thing to do. But 5 years?

[struggle4progress]

2. Lying to a federal official is the charge. She won't get five years.

[yeoman6987]

4. Oh thanks. Lying can be harmful on top of being nasty for sure.

[CBGLuthier]

3. She forgot the first rule. Never talk to a cop. Never.

Even hate filled scumbag racist pieces of shit should never talk to a cop.