Anonymous wrote:Defacing the flag is disgusting. All of these should be removed.

I agree. I hate all these defaced flags.

Just fly the American flag or the Maryland flag with some sort of police banner.
Because this is how you get nationalist splinter groups.

It's one of the few Elrich decisions I agree with. They should not fly these flags anywhere on government property.

Only MAGA's are upset by this. Nobody else cares

Anonymous wrote:The same family who gave that flag also gave another flag (with a red instead of blue stripe, for fire/rescue) to a fire department near Quince Orchard high school. It remains up. I guess Elrich has no problem with that one.

He doesn’t hate firefighters. He hates police.

The same family who gave that flag also gave another flag (with a red instead of blue stripe, for fire/rescue) to a fire department near Quince Orchard high school. It remains up. I guess Elrich has no problem with that one.

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Anonymous wrote:I read in the Twitter replies that there is a BLM banner that continues to hang near Whitman High School on River Road.
I am not from the area. Is this true?

At the corner of River and Whittier, there are often people from the church there holding Black Lives Matter signs and other liberal slogans. I can't remember if there is a sign up there at the moment, even though I pass it a couple of times daily. But that is private property, so o don't think I think affects Elrich.

It's the River Road Unitarian Universalist Church, and the sign is put up by their "racial justice" group within the church. It's on private property, so it has nothing to do with Elrich or the county government.

Anonymous wrote:Also, he governs by tweets/other social media. If 20 people complain out of our 1.1 million, he deems it “controversial.”

Speaking of governing - the governor has now weighed in on this local issue, by tweeting about it.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a thin blue line flag, not a Blue Lives Matter flag. But Elrich is clear that he dislikes the police and thinks they are all racist. It presents real challenges for the police who are black and of color. But he doesn’t seem to get that.

No...

A woodworker and his young son (pictured) made this Blue Lives Matter flag

It’s not a Blue Lives Matter flag just because you call it that. Marc Elrich’s own county website displayed a Montgomery County Police badge wrapped in a black mourning band with the thin blue line in it, to honor the loss of Officer Bomba just weeks ago.

It a blue lives matter flag.

It’s not. It’s a thin blue line flag. Nothing on the flag says Blue lives matter, and blue lives matter doesn’t own the thin blue line.

Blue lives matter is a specific group that wants the killing of police officers to be prosecuted under hate crime statutes. It was formed in 2014 in New York. The thin blue line has been around for 50 years at least.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a thin blue line flag, not a Blue Lives Matter flag. But Elrich is clear that he dislikes the police and thinks they are all racist. It presents real challenges for the police who are black and of color. But he doesn’t seem to get that.

No...

A woodworker and his young son (pictured) made this Blue Lives Matter flag

It’s not a Blue Lives Matter flag just because you call it that. Marc Elrich’s own county website displayed a Montgomery County Police badge wrapped in a black mourning band with the thin blue line in it, to honor the loss of Officer Bomba just weeks ago.

It a blue lives matter flag.

Anonymous wrote:You can send an email to his office protesting this action.

I will send an e-mail to his office to tell him that I support his decision.

Defacing the flag is disgusting. All of these should be removed.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a thin blue line flag, not a Blue Lives Matter flag. But Elrich is clear that he dislikes the police and thinks they are all racist. It presents real challenges for the police who are black and of color. But he doesn’t seem to get that.

No...

A woodworker and his young son (pictured) made this Blue Lives Matter flag

It’s not a Blue Lives Matter flag just because you call it that. Marc Elrich’s own county website displayed a Montgomery County Police badge wrapped in a black mourning band with the thin blue line in it, to honor the loss of Officer Bomba just weeks ago.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a thin blue line flag, not a Blue Lives Matter flag. But Elrich is clear that he dislikes the police and thinks they are all racist. It presents real challenges for the police who are black and of color. But he doesn’t seem to get that.

No...

A woodworker and his young son (pictured) made this Blue Lives Matter flag

Anonymous wrote:The slogan is dumb. Black lives obviously refers to black people. There are no blue people. Perhaps if they had gone with "Cops' Lives Matter" it wouldn't have been embraced

Oops I meant maybe it WOULD have been embraced

The slogan is dumb. Black lives obviously refers to black people. There are no blue people. Perhaps if they had gone with "Cops' Lives Matter" it wouldn't have been embraced

Anonymous wrote:It’s a thin blue line flag, not a Blue Lives Matter flag. But Elrich is clear that he dislikes the police and thinks they are all racist. It presents real challenges for the police who are black and of color. But he doesn’t seem to get that.

Not all but many. Don’t you think it a problem to have racist cops?