What you need to know about the Confederate flag debate
Charleston activists urge removal of Confederate flag
June 22, 2015 - 4:03 pm
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Members of the public continue to pay their respects and leave flowers outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina June 19, 2015, two days after a mass shooting left nine dead during a bible study at the church. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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Pastor Dexter Easley of South Carolina leads others in prayer during an impromptu prayer service outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where a mass shooting took place, in Charleston, June 20, 2015. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters)
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Dylann Storm Roof appears by closed-circuit television at his bond hearing in Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 2015, in a still image from video. (Reuters/Pool)
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An investigator arrives at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 2015, two days after a mass shooting left nine dead during a bible study at the church. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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Jake Stephens pays his respects outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 19, 2015, two days after a mass shooting left nine dead during a bible study at the church. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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Police lead suspected shooter Dylann Roof, 21, into the courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina, June 18, 2015. (Reuters/Jason Miczek)
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Flowers for the victims of Wednesday's shootings, are laid near a police barricade in Charleston, South Carolina, June 18, 2015. (Reuters/Randall Hill)
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A small prayer circle forms nearby where police are responding to a shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, June 17, 2015. (Randall Hill/Reuters)
After imagery showed racist confessed killer Dylann Roof embracing the Confederate flag, activists called for the removal of the flag from from Capitol grounds in South Carolina.
Roof, 21, killed nine African-Americans last week during a Bible study at a historic Charleston church.