ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF News) – Six Flags Over Texas has decided to stop flying the Confederate flag as a result of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed when a man, identified as James Fields Junior, plowed his car into a crowd of counter protesters at a white nationalist rally.
The “Unite the Right” rally was in protest to Charlottesville’s plan to remove Confederate statues from the city.
The park said the six flags were chosen for the six themes it adopted when the first park was designed but those themes have since been discontinued.
Instead, the park said it will only fly the American flag. Six Flags said it always chooses to focus on celebrating the things that unite us versus those that divide us.
The park said it is implementing this protocol at all 20 of its parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Copyright 2017. WBAP/KLIF News. All Rights Reserved.
