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Now, the organizations that had imposed economic boycotts on South Carolina for flying the flag are reevaluating their stance on the state after its removal.

The governor, in a white dress with a black collar, watched from the top of the capitol steps with a phalanx of state officials. The attack was the driving force behind the flag’s removal as people demanded it be removed to honor the victims.

Who took it, and exactly when they took it, is unknown.

Haley did not answer questions about the upcoming ceremony, but earlier Friday on NBC’s “Today” show, she said: “No one should ever drive by the Statehouse and feel pain”. “That set off an action of compassion by people in South Carolina and all over this country”.

“I apologize to everybody, I got a little emotional as I saw the flag coming down”, McGill said, fighting back tears as the anchors took control of the broadcast from the on-scene reporter.

(AP Photo/John Bazemore). South Carolina Speaker of the House Jay Lucas, R-Darlington, left, talks with a House member as a Senate bill calling for the Confederate flag to be removed from the Capitol grounds Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Columbia, S.C.

Shortly after the shooting, photos were made public showing Dylann Roof, the young man arrested as the killer, who said the massacre was his attempt to start a race war, posing with the Confederate flag.

That year a political compromise led to the flag being removed from the State House’s dome and another raised on a 30-foot flagpole at the Confederate Soldier Monument in front of the State House. “We made history and the flag is down”, said Jamie Cabbagestalk of Marion, South Carolina.

Obama delivered a eulogy at one of the funerals, for state Sen.

Though some claim it as a symbol of Southern pride and heritage, it became a nationwide lightning conductor for outrage following the church shooting. Before that it was first flown over the state’s Capitol dome in 1961 on the hundredth anniversary of the Civil War.

This also applies to streets, buildings, the civil rights era and many other important times in the past.

“We need to bring down the flag”, he continued. Among the slain were Reverend Clementa Pinckney, the church’s pastor and a widely admired state senator.

Governor Nikki Haley signed the bill on Thursday finalising the law to remove the flag.

Its final lowering in South Carolina was witnessed by families of those killed in the Charleston church massacre and was welcomed by lawmakers and rights campaigners. He said he had an ancestor who fought on both sides of the Civil War.