By Lindsey Bever Post Nation November 15
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Police officer suspended for driving w/ large #ConfederateFlag display #BlackLivesMatter http://www.record-eagle.com/news/local_news/confederate-flag-flying-officer-suspended/article_2669b1dc-5ba9-5502-8ebb-e90cc1d696d3.html …
A Michigan police officer has resigned after being suspended for flying a Confederate flag from his pickup truck at a rally protesting the election of Donald Trump.
Officer Michael Peters, an 18-year law-enforcement veteran, was seen flying the flag on Veterans Day during a “Love Trumps Hate” rally in Traverse City, Mich., three days after Trump’s presidential win,
The Traverse City Police Department launched an internal investigation into what Police Chief Jeffrey O’Brien called a “reprehensible” incident.
“I met with him this morning and I think he understands the ramifications of his actions,” O’Brien told reporters during a Monday news conference. “I’m not here to judge him; we have a process that we have to go through and we have to allow that process to be implemented. I’m asking everybody in the community to just be patient and let us do our job.”
O’Brien said Peters, who is also facing a criminal investigation, was suspended with pay during the department’s investigation.
Marshall Collins, a black rally-goer, told CBS affiliate WWTV that he was with a group at the anti-Trump protest Friday night when he saw Peters pull up and rev his engine, with a Confederate flag waving from the back of his truck.
The Associated Press reported that Peters, who was off-duty at the time, parked near the rally and started drinking a beer.
“He is a role model and that’s what he should be displaying here,” Collins told WWTV.
“My confrontation was why you would bring that here, knowing what that stands for,” Collins told the news station. “Why would you bring that here? The fear that that flag instills in me, the fear that that flag has put in me and other people like me, why would you choose to display that?”
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Every time I see a story like this I go ballistic, my blood pressure goes thru the roof ! Collins, who is black says, "The fear that that flag instills in me, the fear that that flag has put in me and other people like me," Is he kidding ? What fear do his "people: show when they are burning, looting, assaulting whites or just destroying every thing in their path, where is the fear then? Don't they realize that one of those whites may have a dreaded Confederate flag in their car or even in their pocket ? Besides, BLM is an illegitimate group which was just found to have ties to George Soros.
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Officer Michael Peters, an 18-year law-enforcement veteran, was seen flying the flag on Veterans Day during a “Love Trumps Hate” rally in Traverse City, Mich., three days after Trump’s presidential win,
The Traverse City Police Department launched an internal investigation into what Police Chief Jeffrey O’Brien called a “reprehensible” incident.
“I met with him this morning and I think he understands the ramifications of his actions,” O’Brien told reporters during a Monday news conference. “I’m not here to judge him; we have a process that we have to go through and we have to allow that process to be implemented. I’m asking everybody in the community to just be patient and let us do our job.”
O’Brien said Peters, who is also facing a criminal investigation, was suspended with pay during the department’s investigation.
Marshall Collins, a black rally-goer, told CBS affiliate WWTV that he was with a group at the anti-Trump protest Friday night when he saw Peters pull up and rev his engine, with a Confederate flag waving from the back of his truck.
The Associated Press reported that Peters, who was off-duty at the time, parked near the rally and started drinking a beer.
“He is a role model and that’s what he should be displaying here,” Collins told WWTV.
“My confrontation was why you would bring that here, knowing what that stands for,” Collins told the news station. “Why would you bring that here? The fear that that flag instills in me, the fear that that flag has put in me and other people like me, why would you choose to display that?”
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Every time I see a story like this I go ballistic, my blood pressure goes thru the roof ! Collins, who is black says, "The fear that that flag instills in me, the fear that that flag has put in me and other people like me," Is he kidding ? What fear do his "people: show when they are burning, looting, assaulting whites or just destroying every thing in their path, where is the fear then? Don't they realize that one of those whites may have a dreaded Confederate flag in their car or even in their pocket ? Besides, BLM is an illegitimate group which was just found to have ties to George Soros.
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