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Mr. Jinx's JournalEternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta burial site vandalized
Source: Yahoo News
A man is facing charges after damaging the eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.'s burial site.
Police say Brent Jones, 26, urinated in the reflecting pool and stomped on and broke the eternal flame at the site.
A family visiting the area told Channel 2 Action News that they wanted to visit the burial site, but showed up Saturday morning to find it destroyed.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/eternal-flame-martin-luther-king-172142373.html
Edited at 12:47 p.m. EDT on October 12, 2025, to change the headline from "Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta burial site destroyed" to "Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta burial site vandalized," per Yahoo News.
If you haven't seen "Shiny Happy People: A Teenage Holy War" yet...
It's a must-watch series on Amazon Prime of three episodes. (The first season focused on the Duggar Family.) It pulls back the curtain on one of the more fanatical elements of the Christian Right, Teen Mania Ministries, founded by Ron Luce. He radicalized teenagers in a charismatic manner that brought them into a program that turned them into glorified foot soldiers by some of the shadiest practices of abuse and exploitation. The last few minutes are also concerning, as Teen Mania Ministries connected itself to the larger right-wing ecosphere and the Convention of States movement, which is a major red alert.
The fact that this is also on Amazon Prime shouldn't be lost either.
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