Police are studying security video to identify the two white men who placed Confederate battle flags on the grounds of Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta.
One flag was removed from a bell tower in an area dedicated to remembering the life and influence of Dr. King. Another was placed next to a sign that reads "Black lives matter."
Rev. Raphael Warnock, senior pastor at Ebenezer said putting the flag near the slain civil rights leader's crypt amounts to a "terroristic threat."
"It was disturbing, um, and sickening, but unfortunately, not terribly surprising," Warnock said.
Dominic Staubach travelled from Cincinnati with his wife and daughter to visit the King Center.
"It definitely should be surprising, but is it surprising? I don't know. I don't know. Not everybody raises their kids right," he said.
It's the latest controversy over the Confederate flag since it was removed from the South Carolina state Capitol grounds in the wake of the murder of nine black church members in Charleston.
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