Group to fly Confederate flag again at South Carolina capitol

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A group still angry South Carolina removed a Confederate flag from the Statehouse lawn is again temporarily raising the rebel banner at the capitol.

The South Carolina Secessionist Party says it will fly the Confederate flag on a temporary pole for several hours Tuesday.

The day marks the third anniversary of the state removing the Confederate flag that flew on a pole on the Statehouse front lawn for 15 years. Lawmakers' decision was prompted by the killing of nine black worshippers in a racist attack at a Charleston church.

The Secessionist Party says it will raise the flag every July 10th so a year won't pass without the Confederate flag flying.

About 200 flag supporters and protesters came to a 2016 event on the first anniversary of the flag's removal.

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Associated Press