Google Inc has become the latest online retailer to pull all products bearing the controversial Confederate flag from sale in the wake of last week's racially-motivated massacre at a historic black church in South Carolina.
Amazon, eBay, Wal-Mart and Sears have already announced their decision to ban sales of merchandise displaying the image of the flag, which many see as representing racism and slavery.
A 21-year-old man is in custody tonight after a pastor and eight of his congregation were shot in a church in what police are treating as a hate crime.
Dylann Roof, who is pictured on his Facebook page wearing a jacket emblazoned with the flag of white rule Rhodesia and apartheid-era South Africa, was arrested after the shootings last night in Charleston.
Today tributes have been paid to the shooting victims, including Reverend Clementa Pinckney.
ITV News correspondent Robert Moore reports:
Barack Obama says that the United States has not yet overcome its history of racism and used a racial slur to highlight his point.
The church where nine people were murdered last week has reopened as the city shows solidarity with the congregation.
Dylann Roof, the suspect who allegedly killed nine black people in a South Carolina church, is pictured on his 'own' hate-filled website.