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#Pro-Confederate protesters march in Stone Mountain Georgia

“Pro-Confederate protesters march in Stone Mountain Georgia”

About 200 members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia were met by counter-protesters as they gathered at Stone Mountain to commemorate the group’s unofficial “Memorial Day.”

Demonstrators, roughly 100 in all, shouted expletives and held signs in support of “racial justice” and “black lives matter.”

“Nothing historic with regard to the Civil War happened at this park,” Gerald Griggs, Atlanta attorney and president of the state conference of the NAACP, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “So there’s no need to memorialize traitors to the American democracy.”

A woman bows her head in prayer during Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Georgia on April 30, 2022
A woman bows her head in prayer during Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain Park in Stone Mountain, Georgia on April 30, 2022
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Counter-protestors
The group was met by about 100 counter-protestors.
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A group of counter-protesters walk towards a group celebrating Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain on April 30, 2022.
A group of counter-protesters walk towards a group celebrating Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain on April 30, 2022.
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Supporters gather during Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain Park east of Atlanta.
Supporters gather during Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain Park east of Atlanta.
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Georgia State Patrol kept the two sides separated and the rally ended peacefully with no notable clashes or arrests reported.

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