Posted on 04/13/2019 7:23:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A decision to affix an American flag graphic to the side of freshly painted Laguna Beach police cars is dividing residents who are alternately praising the image as patriotic or panning it as too aggressive.
After hearing the criticism and acknowledging that the image they approved didn’t quite match the final results, officials agreed to reconsider their February decision to paint the Laguna Beach Police Department’s fleet of 11 squad cars. The City Council will take up the issue again at its Tuesday meeting.
“People are screaming that the American flag on a police car is somehow or another … hurting people’s feelings who might be immigrants or visitors,” said Councilman Peter Blake. “People are actually ridiculous enough to bring up comments about our cop cars having American flags on them.”
Artist Carrie Woodburn went to the podium at the March 19 council meeting and said it was “shocking to see the boldness of the design” when the newly painted Ford Explorers rolled out.
“We have such an amazing community of artists here, and I thought the aesthetic didn’t really represent our community,” Woodburn said. “It feels very aggressive.” …
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That horrible flag! Tell me, does that star spangled thing still wave, over this place, the land of the politically correct and the home of the cowering?
Ladies and Gentlemen. Your civil war approaches
Oh, she’s white. Her opinion doesn’t matter (liberal rules).
Can “the big one” come soon enough?
I saw “Police” in a Red/White/Blue format but didn’t see any flag...maybe I didn’t dig deep enough.
I know. Oregon, Washington are full to overflowing...
Displaying an American flag is the cheapest and most effective Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system you can get.
It’s about what the liberals see in their minds.
Forgive them. They’re “artists”. Which means they have no relevance or maturity of thought when it comes to living in the real world.
American Flags are offensive? Oh no, if you don’t like it, go back to your third world s__thole you came from.
"She took me off my guard with disappointment, I got sucked inside of her appartment.
She's got dried up flowers and flakey skin, a beaded necklace and bottle of gin.
She's a nightmare hippy girl..."
She is “out there.”
Agreed. And I have some personal experience with that.
Appropriate.
FTA: “It feels very aggressive.”
What does she mean by that?
FTA: “There was like a little panic going on, and I was like, ‘What’s happening?’ ” Prelitz said. The hubbub, he discovered, was over a cluster of police cars that had arrived at the scene. “When one of them’s there, it works. But all of a sudden, I saw, wow, when there are three, maybe four of them together, folks thought it was a SWAT team, federal agents. So it had a very striking, strong impact, so much so that I think there might be some unintended consequences.”
I bet they had committed crimes and were wondering if the police were coming for them.
#14 there were complaints right after 9/11 in San Francisco about fire engines having flags. You know Nancy Pelosi area.
Mainly from large cities wherever they are.
Typical artsy - fartsy loser who projects her lunacy through her so-called art. Other lunatics feel good around the nitwit .
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