(Editor’s note: The video referenced in this story contains explicit language that some may find offensive.)

DALTON, Ga. — Video of a parade of cars and trucks adorned with Confederate flags driving through a Georgia city has gone viral, thanks to the scene captured at the end of the clip — several trucks involved in the controversial protest crashed into each other.

The video shows the vehicles driving in this north Georgia city Saturday, each decorated with a Confederate flag and others. The video was filmed by a man at an area gas station. Dalton Police Department officers are seen stopping traffic in the video.

Throughout the video, the man uses explicit language in describing his anger about the impromptu parade and the Confederate flag. At the end of the video, after several of the vehicles rear-end each other, the man can be heard laughing and later saying, “God don’t like ugly.”

As of Monday afternoon, the video has been viewed more than 500,000 times on LiveLeak and more than 35,000 times on YouTube.

In a post on The Daily Citizen’s Facebook page, Mikey Moore said he participated in the rally.

“I was in that parade proudly flying my flag, along with people from different races with us,” Moore wrote in his post. “I have friends from other races, and some of them have been my best friends. So don’t cry to me, don’t tell me not to fly a flag that stands for the place I was born and my family has lived on for years and years, and definitely don’t call me a racist. People crying to the government pulling the ‘racist’ card … you are the problem. I work, I pay taxes, I have friends from all sorts of races, and I fly a Confederate flag. If you got a problem with that, I have a problem with you.”

In the weeks since the racially-motivated June 17 shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church that killed nine black people, efforts to remove the Confederate battle flag from public institutions and buildings have garnered media attention and sparked fervent debate regarding its Southern history. Since then, similar motorcades and rallies in support of the Confederate flag have taken place across the South. 

According to Dalton police, the department was alerted through social media that some people were planning a procession in the area.

“We had a concern that the group may proceed without coordination, and felt it would be safer for our community to have a presence there to keep it peaceful,” Dalton Police Chief Jason Parker said in a press release. “Our officers are in a tough position sometimes because they are called in to maintain order in the middle of strongly opposing views. We do not support any group which discriminates against the rights of others, or attempts to cause fear or alarm in our community.”

As the now-viral motorcade moved through city roadways, both authorities and city officials had to develop a traffic plan for the procession.

“Given the history that gatherings perpetuated through social media can tend to grow to a scale that is difficult to control after the fact, the Dalton Police Department contacted representatives of the group and Wal-Mart to determine the safest way to proceed in a lawful manner and impact the free flow of traffic as little as possible,” Parker said in the press release.

Ty Ross, city administrator, said city officials stand behind the press release issued by the police department.

“In these times, and with these events, emotions can run high so we believe it’s important to speak with one voice,” he said.

Martinez writes for the Dalton (Georgia) Daily Citizen.