KKK and Black Panthers clash during dual protests in South Carolina

Both parties were there over the Confederate flag.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party engaged in clashes of angers at a rally outside the South Carolina statehouse. The black demonstrators cheered as the Confederate flags were stolen and ripped as part of their protest against racism, but they are urging legislators to do more for the minorities than simply taking down the slavery-associated flag. Amid the protest, the white supremacists stood on the Capitol steps doing Nazi salutes.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - The KKK went out to the grounds Saturday, with about 300 of their members, to condemn the decision of the governor to take down the Confederate flag.

Around 400 members of the New Black Panther Party marched to the same ground to promote racial equality - eventually countering the demonstrations being held by the white supremacist group. Leaders of both groups promised to stay away from each other, but soon clashes broke out.

Reports explain that a police officer held down a white man in the Confederate flag and shouted for assistance. Charleston Post-Courier shared that there were police officers deployed just in case protests became heated. Those involved had to break off three fights during the demonstration. This was the latest violent outbreak in South Carolina, following the shooting massacre at the hands of 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who killed nine churchgoers.

The massacre prompted many other demonstrations nationwide to call on leaders to take down the 150-year-old Confederate flag, which is tainted with slavery and racist associations.

"The flag coming down is not progress. It is an illusion of progress. Ever since slavery started in America, whites have the privilege of freedom that blacks in South Carolina do not have," said Black Educators for Justice leader James Evans Muhammad.

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