The story of another direct action to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds back in 2002:

“Assuming the guise of his nom de guerre, the Reverend E. Slave, [Emmett Rufus] Eddy donned a black Santa suit, carried a ladder bearing the names [of] black rights organizers to the South Carolina State House, set it up next to the flagpole, climbed to the top of the flagpole, cut down the Confederate flag, shouted ‘this is for the children,’ and lit it on fire, as state police heckled him from below and tried to douse him with pepper spray.”