Activist and Chattanooga City Council candidate Marie Mott, a leader of the local George Floyd protest movement, took to Facebook on Friday morning to admit to removing the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office flag from in front of the downtown jail and then burning it during a protest Thursday evening.
“I took the flag that belongs to the sheriff down from the flagpole in front of the county jail and I burned it,” Mott says in the 38-minute video.
While Mott and fellow activist Cameron “C-Grimey” Williams have made social media posts claiming that warrants have been taken out for their arrest, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Matt Lea said that, as of Friday late afternoon, that was untrue.
“There have been no charges filed at this time regarding this incident,” Lea wrote in an email. “We are aware of the incident in question and what transpired during the course of the protest. Presently, I do not have any additional details I can offer at this time.”
Mott did not respond to a request for comment, and Williams declined to comment beyond what he shared on Facebook.