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Updated: Thursday, February 23, 2017, 7:43 AM

A Black Lives Matter leader in Charleston was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct Wednesday after trying to snatch a Confederate battle flag at a protest and getting caught on live TV.

Protesters gathered outside the College of Charleston during a speech by Bree Newsome, the filmmaker and activist who famously climbed a flagpole outside the South Carolina State House and took down its Confederate flag. The South Carolina Secessionist Party planned to demonstrate against the event.

Videos from the scene show one white protester, behind yellow police tape, hoisting a large Confederate flag as people off camera taunt him for having no friends.

Muhiyidin Elamin Moye a Black Lives Matter leader who goes by Muhiyidin dBaha is then seen jumping the police tape and grabbing the flag in mid-air, right in front of a live news camera.

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He appears to try running away with the flag as an immediate uproar breaks out.

Police later told the Post and Courier that Moye, 31, was charged.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), one of several activist groups that had counter-protesters at the event, created a crowdfunding page on Donox Box to raise $6,000 for Moyes bail.

HELP BAIL MUHIYYIDIN OUT!...It is dangerous for a PoC (Person of Color) to spend the night in jail, the page says.

After a white supremacist gunned down nine parishioners at a Charleston black church in 2015, the city became the center of a national movement to remove public displays of the Confederate flag.

Newsome herself was arrested for her State House stunt, which happened just days after the church shooting.

The State House put the flag back up, but South Carolina pols voted just weeks later to take down the flag for good.

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