Minny black mayor REMOVES thin blue line flag from outside of police station.

[powderman]

   
Minny black mayor REMOVES thin blue line flag from outside of police station.
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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/brooklyn-center-minnesota-thin-blue-line-flag-daunte-wright

Minnesota mayor removes 'thin blue line' flag outside police station over criticism it's 'inflammatory'
Brooklyn Center mayor Mike Elliott says, 'We don't want the flag to be a flashpoint'
By Sam Dorman | Fox News

Officers involved in Minnesota shooting deserve due process: Former detective
A pro-law enforcement flag that was flying outside Brooklyn Center, Minnesota's police station has been removed amid concerns that it would inflame tensions in the wake of Daunte Wright's death.

At a press conference Tuesday, Mayor Mike Elliott confirmed that he had asked for the "thin blue line" flag's removal.



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The pro-police flag has come under scrutiny amid widely-publicized police encounters with Black Americans.

Elliot said he had received "a number of inquiries about the flag. I've gotten inquiries from the ACLU of Minnesota, requests to have that flag taken down because they see it and the community sees it as inflammatory."


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"And so, with people coming to the department expressing their anger and seeing the flag -- we don't want the flag to be a flashpoint that angers people and does that in a way that they're going to come to the department," he said at a press conference Tuesday.

Sunday's fatal shooting provoked outrage and ultimately led to Police Chief Tim Gannon's resignation. Officer Kim Potter also resigned after police said she accidentally shot Wright instead of using a Taser.

Sam Dorman is a reporter with Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @DormanInDC or at facebook.com/SamDormanFoxNews

[BUGEYE]

Well, I don't like to see the flag changed in any manner.
And flag etiquette says the same.
A blue line defaces the flag.
I served under it and it irks me to no end to see it defaced.

     

Quick list of Flag Etiquette Don’ts:

    Don’t dip the U.S. Flag for any person, flag, or vessel.
    Don’t let the flag touch the ground.
    Don’t fly flag upside down unless there is an emergency.
    Don’t carry the flag flat, or carry things in it.
    Don’t use the flag as clothing.
    Don’t store the flag where it can get dirty.
    Don’t use it as a cover.
    Don’t fasten it or tie it back. Always allow it to fall free.
    Don’t draw on, or otherwise mark the flag.
    Don’t use the flag for decoration. Use bunting with the blue on top, then white, then red.

[Goldie]

I agree bugeye.

[BUGEYE]

I agree bugeye.

Thanks
I never let it rain on my flag, and I never let The Sun go down on it.

[Doublebass73]

There's a whack job Universalist Unitarian "church" down the road from me that flies a BLM flag. That's inflammatory to me but I support their 1st Amendment right to fly it.

[Dee]

I don't support anything that demeans the flag, our Constitution, or our Bill of Rights.
While we have a fool for an illigitiment president, I still resent other countries making fun of him. Especially when we as a country have helped these other countries.

I guess it's like in the old days when a family had a pos brother. They could say anything they wanted to about him, but the neighborhood couldn't.