Southern Discomfort

(Fox News) - Actor Wesley Snipes says that prosecutors in his upcoming tax evasion trial selected Ocala, Florida as a venue because the area is too racist to allow him a fair trial. Snipes' legal team filed a motion this week seeking to dismiss the charges — or move the trial to New York City.

The motion describes the area as — "A hotbed of Ku Klux Klan activity where Klan members adopted highways to commemorate the Klan and the Confederate flag flies over government property."

The chief assistant state attorney calls that the most outrageous claim he's ever heard in open court. Ocala Mayor Randy Ewers tells FOX News the city does fly a version of the confederate flag — but it is part of a display of several historic Florida flags. And he says if Snipes' attorneys have evidence of Klan activity in the area — he'd like to know about it.