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Posted on 08/15/2014 4:58:19 PM PDT by Mozilla
Police in Garwood, New Jersey, confirmed that a militant flag associated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) was removed from the front of a local home after hundreds of online activists expressed fear and revulsion.
Garwood Police Chief Bruce D. Underhill confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that officers were “aware of the situation” and residents at the suburban home “voluntarily” agreed to remove the flag.
A photo of the home with the ISIL and Turkish flags was tweeted out Tuesday morning and quickly attracted hundreds of retweets and comments.
Underhill told the Free Beacon that the police are aware of the situation and are working to uphold the public safety.
“Thank you for your concern regarding this important matter,” Underhill wrote the Free Beacon in an email Wednesday afternoon. “Only with the public’s continued cooperation can we keep our communities safe.”
Multiple calls to a number associated with the New Jersey address were not answered and a resident did not respond to messages left seeking comment. Messages sent to a Facebook account believed to be associated with one of the residents also were not answered by press time.
Update: Following publication of the story, Garwood Police Chief Bruce D. Underhill denied that the police “ordered” the flag to be removed and would not discuss whether or not the police had been contacted about the home in question. He also declined to discuss what “appropriate steps” were taken after his officers became aware of the situation. The headline and the story have been updated to reflect Underhill’s further comments.
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But does the guy who lives there have lots of lumps and contusions?
Not the funniest movie in the world and contrived, but not bad. You were in the service, right?
Guy might be a terrorist. You never know.
And it is only going to get worse...
Yes, with our border to the south fully open for such a long time just wait for the fireworks this 9/11.
Hope and change....
An “appropriate reaction” would be to burn the house to the ground.
“....residents at the suburban home “voluntarily” agreed to remove the flag.”
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Did the authorities say “Please” first?
Yes I was and I will look for that movie if I have time.
I long for the “old days” in America.
I wonder what would have happened during WWII if someone had flown a Nazi or Jap flag on their front porch?
I know, but today’s generation would leave it alone.
Today’s generation has been sapped of their moral virility through govenrment schooling and semidirty-to-dirty TV and movies.
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