Mother of slain cop tears into Democrat town council for causing her a 'world of hurt' by refusing to fly the 'Thin Blue Line' flag in his honor and instead flying LGBTQ rainbow banner (@ half-mast - Wethersfield, Connecticut)

Daily Mail ^ | 6/20/24 | Isabelle Stanley, Sophie Mann

[Libloather]

The mother of a cop killed in the line of duty has slammed a town council for causing her a 'world of hurt' by refusing to fly the 'Thin Blue Line' flag in another dead officer's honor.

Democrat-run Wethersfield town council in Connecticut stirred controversy this month by voting down an attempt to have the Thin Blue Line flag flown in honor of Aaron Pelletier who was killed in the line of duty on May 30.

The motion failed 5-3 after the Democrats said the flag is racist and chose to fly the rainbow LGBT flag, that was already scheduled to fly for Pride month in June, at half-mast instead.

Slamming their decision at a council meeting on Monday, the mother of a second fallen officer, Debbie Garten said: 'The impact of this council's action is immeasurable.'

Her son, Hartford Det. Robert "Bobby" Garten, was killed in 2023.

Defending the Pelletier family, Debbie told councilors: 'I feel you all have missed the point of this flag request, which has caused a world of hurt to me as a lifelong resident of this town for 60 years, my family, residents of Wethersfield and the law enforcement community at large.'

Her son Bobby was killed in September 2023 when his patrol car was hit by another vehicle.

**SNIP**

Emily Zambrello, a Democrat member of the council said of the Thin Blue Line flag: 'That flag was either created or at least became prevalent in direct response to the Black Lives Matter protests, which were fueled in part by the killing of George Floyd by police.

'It's viewed as antagonistic even if you don’t see it that way and I don’t think that’s a good flag to fly, especially not without further discussion.'

[Libloather]

Do the commies even know that it's despicable?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Even if they didn’t like the thin blue line flag couldn’t they at least have flown the stars and stripes at half mast instead of the alpha betti spaghetti one?

[sonova]

Sorry about your kid, lady.
The “thin blue line” “flag” is a desecration of our American Flag. One can look up the Flag code, which prohibits altering the Flag.

https://www.legion.org/flag/code

[Gene Eric]

kid?

/sniff

[Sirius Lee]

Are you kidding me! Flying the FAG flag at half mast? What an insult to the fallen cop's family, and to all Americans in general.

The only thing the fag flag is good for is for heating the inside of a burn barrel.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Do the commies even know that it’s despicable?”

I think they do. I think that’s what they’re going for. The more chaos the better.

[Psalm 73]

"...the Democrats said the flag is racist and chose to fly the rainbow LGBT flag..."

In the cradle of The Great Awakening, no less.

How far we have fallen.

Pray hard (1 Thessalonians 5:17)

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Here is the thing about their rainbow flag.

‘They’ have STOLEN everything they can to spin a positive on their lifestyle:

The rainbow- A sign from God. Also, gold at the end of the rainbow.

The word ‘gay’- carefree, happy

The ‘rainbow flag’ is actually the PACE flag (pronounced pah’ -chay) which is the Italian word for Peace.

San Francisco, Provincetown, Key West - all the gorgeous, once former ideal places to take your family are now gay meccas.

Now, they are stealing kids, taking away their innocence with their ‘education’ on gay sex in schools. If this had been done when I was in school, people would have disappeared or been imprisoned. It is sexual child grooming, period.

[IAGeezer912]

I find it ironic that the first 3 letters of LGBTQ also stand for Let’s Go Brandon. GOD has a sense of humor.

[PGalt]

Informative comments BUMP.

[HollyB]

On the decision to lower the pride flag to half mast instead of flying the thin blue line flag.

“Emily Zambrello, a Democrat member of the council said of the Thin Blue Line flag: ‘That flag was either created or at least became prevalent in direct response to the Black Lives Matter protests, which were fueled in part by the killing of George Floyd by police.

More on Emily: “The other thing is, I’m a disabled person. I’m also queer and I’m a woman. ”

https://metrohartford.com/about-us/newsroom/homegrown-ct-emily-zambrello/

[HollyB]

They had it up for pride month, the woman who coordinates the decisions is ‘queer’, and she was NOT going to remove that flag. Not for anybody, for any reason; they are despicable.

[nicollo]

'It's viewed as antagonistic even if you don’t see it that way

Hmm... think I've seen that somewhere before... Oh yeah,

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”

[Psalm 73]

I've got a "Let’s Go Brandon" sticker on my truck's bumper.

I thought it was way clever when it came out, and astonished that more MAGA folk didn't embrace it.

[logi_cal869]

The “thin blue line” “flag” is a desecration of our American Flag.

No, it is NOT.

[Ex-Con777]

Emily must read Harpers because that lie started there.

The Thin Blue Line symbol was around since the 60’s. The flag came into prominence immediately following the 2016 killing of five White Dallas police officers by a black man, Micah Xavier Johnson, who proclaimed to be on a mission to “kill as many White cops” as he could. The flags were everywhere in north Texas.

This birdbrain of a rug muncher lives a fantasy life to begin with. I refuse to live in this fantasy of hers. It’s rather disappointing that the press can’t make an effort to correct these windbags.

EC

[sonova]

The “thin blue line” “flag” is a desecration of our American Flag.
No, it is NOT.

++++++++++++++++++

You suck your cop ass.

[logi_cal869]

"You suck your cop ass."

I know ZERO progressive/lefty cops, though I know for a fact that they exist in the big cities, plus their prog leadership and civilian 'leaders'. As well, the garbage about the blue line flag being a 'desecration' of the U.S. flag was a leftist trope of social media trolls.

So that comment is mighty lefty of you, an atypical libtard reaction to the local police (e.g., 'defund' BS). Unless, of course, you really are a die hard Conservative and you've been fighting CWII for awhile now.

However, if that was the case, your body count would temper such a reaction.

So it appears that my comment should stand...

smh