In an unusual legal maneuver, (MEANING THEY NEVER DID THIS TO BLACK GANG MEMBERS) the district attorney in this suburb of Atlanta has won indictments against 15 supporters of the Confederate battle flag, accusing them of violating the state's anti-street gang ordinance during a confrontation with black partygoers

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. -- In an unusual legal maneuver, the district attorney in this suburb of Atlanta has won indictments against 15 supporters of the Confederate battle flag, accusing them of violating the state's anti-street gang ordinance during a confrontation with black partygoers in July, the district attorney said Monday.

Prosecutors say that members of the group, which calls itself "Respect the Flag," threatened a group of African-Americans participating in an outdoor party on July 25. A cellphone video of part of the 

episode shows several white men driving away from the party in a convoy of pickup trucks with the Confederate battle flag and other banners, including American flags, fluttering from the truck beds.

The partygoers contend that members of the flag group yelled racial slurs and displayed a crow bar, a knife and either a rifle or a shotgun, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil-rights group 

in Montgomery, Ala., that is representing some of the accusers.

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