Happening now: a confrontation on the ped mall as people burn an American flag as protest. pic.twitter.com/aPkMdls6oQ— Stephen GruberMiller (@sgrubermiller) January 26, 2017
As a FedEx worker saved an American flag from being burned, one of the protesters can be heard saying it’s “a First Amendment right” to burn the flag. This is the biggest example of hypocrisy you’ll ever see put on display by clueless anti-American protesters. The freedom they attest is their right was provided to them by the very thing they want burned!
Leftist radicals only embrace the Constitution only when it suits them, if they had their way they would scrap it to adopt Sharia Law or maybe the Russian Constitution, claiming they’re “fighting fascism”.
Like the man said if “You don’t like it get the F*** out!”
A group was out on the ped mall this afternoon burning flags in protest. FedEx driver jumped in to extinguish them. pic.twitter.com/ElW01BrIfu— David Scrivner (@davidscrivner) January 26, 2017
Flag burning protest sets off clash in ped mall
Protesters burn American flags in Iowa City
Iowa City Press-Citizen
A group of protesters set fire to multiple American flags on the Iowa City pedestrian mall on Thursday, setting off a scuffle and heated verbal arguments with bystanders.
The flag burning was not intended to be anti-veteran, members of the group said, but instead meant to protest racial and social injustice and U.S. imperialism, they said.
“When I see the flag, I see racial injustice,” said Paul Osgerby of Iowa City. “I see social injustice from Native American genocide to African-American slavery to failing to recognize women as citizens until the 20th century.”
Still, the actions caused a scene on the pedestrian mall across from the Old Capitol Mall, as onlookers shouted and a man in a FedEx uniform, Matt Uhrin, rushed out with a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze. Uhrin took one of the flags from protesters, scuffling with a number of protesters in the process...read more