An American flag was removed from a construction site in Richmond, Virginia, on Friday after officials claimed it was a potential target for protesters.
“Over the past month we’ve seen buildings and structures around Capitol Square vandalized and flags, dumpsters, a bus and other items set ablaze during demonstrations around the city,” spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of General Services Dena Potter said in an email, according to the Hill.
“When we saw the flag, we were concerned that it could become a target, so we told the contractor to remove it,” she continued.
However, the decision reportedly angered a subcontractor whose fireproofing company made the approximately one-story tall flag out of tarps, according to NBC 12.
In a Facebook post Thursday, Eric Winston of American Coatings Corp. shared a picture of the flag and said, “the straw just broke the camels back!”:
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Wow, is this still America?
ReplyDeletePut any other flag and see if they are made to take it down.Bet a Muslim,rainbow,Mexican,BLM or whatever would stay.
ReplyDeletecmon eastern shore, we gotta go save dixieland..... they got great burgers!
ReplyDelete7:00- No one is boycotting or causing any harm to Dixieland. Everyone, black or white, has no issues with them. Just like the civil war, nothing will happen in those parts. True, someone cut telegraph wires near New Church, but that was as far as it went for anything here during 1861-1865.
DeleteThey should hang a noose up. See the reaction.
ReplyDeleteNah..we r better than that
DeleteThat is what the socialist VA Democrats wanted and this is what that got. Just don't ask for my Federal tax dollars to rebuild from this trash that allows this.
ReplyDeleteVA started the CIVIL WAR the first time and it appears VA will start the 2nd CIVIL WAR very soon.
Meanwhile their governor wears a hood.
ReplyDeleteWe fought the civil war. WW1 WW2 and others. Now we need to take back this country and make it America again for those who want freedom to walk anywhere in this country without being in fear. We need to put an end to this mob violence. We must stop doing nothing and form a peoples army
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DeleteMe and You did not fight in any of those wars. My gosh, some were hundreds of years ago.
You and I live under the US Military dictatorship and we pay half our income to support the government. We serve it. Not the other way around.
This is 2020 not 1776.
The original revolution would be squashed today by a technological war machine.
Hunker down
Come on people when are we going to stand up and stop all this BS? (map)
ReplyDeleteIf the American flag represents a "target" to "protesters," then they aren't protesters. They are enemies of the state and should be treated as such by execution.
ReplyDeleteGovernor Blackface is Representing!
ReplyDeleteThey should be ashamed of themselves for running from those worthless thugs. Stand up and fight for what is right instead of caving to their every whim. We have got to stop them from bullying us.
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