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  Gov. Nikki Haley joins call to remove Confederate flag
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Last EditedRP  Jun 23, 2015 10:35am
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AuthorCynthia Roldan and Schuyler Kropf
News DateMonday, June 22, 2015 05:45:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionGov. Nikki Haley and South Carolina’s two U.S. senators on Monday joined the growing chorus calling for removing the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds after a white gunman killed nine black people last week in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.

Haley declared during a Statehouse news conference that South Carolina had “stared evil in the eye” last week, and it is time to fold the flag for good.

“Today, we are here in a moment of unity in our state, without ill will, to say it is time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds,” Haley said. “One hundred fifty years after the end of the Civil War ... the time has come.
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