Law brings down confederate flag

South Carolina’s governor has signed a bill into law that will bring down the Confederate flag outside the Statehouse, a move that seemed unthinkable only a month ago in the Southern state that was the first to secede from the Union.

The mass shooting at a historic black church last month, by a suspect who had posed in photos with the Civil War-era battle flag, led to the change. Police said the shootings were racially motivated.