Thousands rally to support Confederate flag in Florida city

An eight-mile party of guitar s pickups, bikes and vehicle ended against a crucial Florida metropolis on Sunday within a tell of help to use on the Confederate flag, being a repercussion against its banishment from people galleries round the South selections up steam vacuum.

Police told WFTV-TV at least six gunshots were fired from an apartment complex near the location where rally participants began their rides.

Alan Youngblood-AP The Confederate flag flies once again on the flag pole outside the McPherson Governmental Complex in Ocala, Fla., on July 7, 2015.

“They come, they watch them run through on their motorcycles, running red lights and throwing beer bottles”. “The police didn’t stop them or nothing”.

He said he wants the Florida Southern Pride Ride to be a peaceful and silent show of support.

“This is my flag. I carry it with me all the time”, said Pride Ride attendee Bryan Williams. A awful reminder of mistakes we made in the past that just will not go away and has a habit of flaring up aggressively at inopportune moments.

Lawmakers in South Carolina removed it from the grounds of the state Capitol Friday because of what some say is a history of racism.

They were found at the tax collector’s office and are now back up.

The decision to keep a Confederate flag at the Marion County government facility sparked a protest of by people for and against the flag.

The Florida rally came weeks after the shooting deaths of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that spurred a national debate about the flying of the Confederate flag.

Commissioner Earl Arnett said he is going to propose putting the county’s Confederate flag in a museum.