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Police watchdog to investigate photos of Seattle PD vehicles adorned with Gadsden flags
MyNorthWest.com ^ | 10/19/21 | NICK BOWMAN

Posted on 10/19/2021 8:03:04 PM PDT by MAGA2017

Seattle’s Office of Police Accountability is opening an investigation into photos that circulated on social media over the weekend of Seattle Police Department vehicles adorned with Gadsden flags.

On Sunday night, KTTH’s Jason Rantz Show posted three photos of SPD vehicles with the Gadsden flag draped across their sides, reportedly in protest of the recently implemented COVID vaccine mandate for city employees.

SPD reported on Twitter the next day that it had forwarded those photos to the OPA for an investigation. It also sent along claims on social media that SPD officers had been “honking and giving thumps up” in support of a protest against the vaccine mandate that took place in front of City Hall on Monday.

SPD’s employee conduct policy states that officers cannot use City facilities for “political purposes,” or use “their City position to endorse or oppose a candidate or ballot issue.”

The Gadsden flag’s history dates back to before the Revolutionary War, with the first iteration rumored to have been drawn by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. It first appeared as a drawing of a segmented snake, where each piece represented an American colony. In that original version, it read “Join, or Die.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: covid19; flag; gadsden; mandate; police; protest; seattle; vaccine

1 posted on 10/19/2021 8:03:04 PM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

I had interpreted the headline as referring to a real dog - now that would be some investigation!


2 posted on 10/19/2021 8:06:36 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: proxy_user

LOL! I didn’t of that but you’re right.


3 posted on 10/19/2021 8:07:33 PM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: MAGA2017

How terrible, using a flag from the revolutionary war. Who would do such a terrible thing?

Tyrants fear those who love freedom!


4 posted on 10/19/2021 8:17:00 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: MAGA2017

Will they be investigating how cool this is? lol.


5 posted on 10/19/2021 8:20:26 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: MAGA2017

if the police cars were set on fire by rampaging mobs, there would be NO INVESTIGATION!


6 posted on 10/19/2021 8:21:20 PM PDT by euram
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To: euram
If Gadsden flags are outlawed.....

Only outlaws......

What....wait....?

7 posted on 10/19/2021 8:33:39 PM PDT by spokeshave (We would be ahead by banning fossil fools, like Biden, Pelosi, Feinstein, Schumer, Leahy, etc.)
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To: MAGA2017

??? What’s “political” about resisting a shot? Isn’t this supposed to be about your health. Hmmm...politics?


8 posted on 10/19/2021 8:44:29 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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9 posted on 10/19/2021 9:07:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: MAGA2017

Who’s going after criminals in Seattle if they are so tied up in checking on Gadsden flags? I’ll ask the families of those murder victims in the city morgue if this is a major concern.


10 posted on 10/19/2021 9:13:23 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: All
"Forget it Jake, It's Seattletown."


11 posted on 10/19/2021 9:32:50 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: BenLurkin
Fixed it!


12 posted on 10/19/2021 11:41:20 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: MAGA2017

“My body, my choice?” Oh, wait, that only applies to abortion. Every other decision the State dictates. And don’t give them no Revolutionary War guff, Rebel scum!


13 posted on 10/20/2021 12:17:31 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: MAGA2017

Using the vax as a means of purging all uncooperative people in all positions of employment.. They need zombies not free thinkers


14 posted on 10/20/2021 2:39:11 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Tell them what they want to hear with sincerity and do what is necessary )
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To: MAGA2017
Ooh, forced jabs. defunding the police, and now this, getting rid of more police officers from a department that's already short-staffed, What could possibly go wrong?
15 posted on 10/20/2021 5:25:56 AM PDT by nuke_road_warrior (Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
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Very good, take more police off the streets so the violent radical left feels even safer rampaging.


16 posted on 10/20/2021 5:36:38 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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