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DA Decides Not to File Charges in Morgan Hill Nazi Flag Incident
SanJoseInside ^ | May 2, 20250 | Michael Moore

Posted on 05/04/2025 2:41:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Authorities said they will not file charges against a person who hung a flag depicting a Nazi swastika on the Burnett Avenue overpass in Morgan Hill.

Santa Clara County Supervising Deputy District Attorney Michel Amaral said the DA’s office has concluded an investigation into the March 21 incident and decided it will not charge the person who displayed the flag over Highway 101 with a crime.

Amaral said after investigating, his office determined there was not enough evidence to support a criminal charge that would lead to a conviction in a criminal court.

“The decision was made to not file charges because we do not believe there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt to support a conviction,” Amaral said. “When we charge a case, there has to be a specific, identifiable victim. No matter how abhorrent the display of that image is, we have to make sure the speech involved is criminal in nature, weighing against any free speech issues involved.”

The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office the afternoon of March 21 responded to reports that someone had hung a Nazi flag on the north Morgan Hill overpass where supporters of President Donald Trump had gathered for a political demonstration.

Arriving deputies removed the flag and began investigating the incident as a possible hate crime, authorities said. Investigators identified and interviewed a person responsible for hanging the flag.

Officers from the Morgan Hill Police Department and the California Highway Patrol also responded to the March 21 reports.

The sheriff’s office submitted the case to the DAs office for review. That review is now complete, Amaral said.

The person who hung the Nazi flag has not been publicly identified by police or the DAs office.

Photos of the swastika flag posted to social media on March 21 also show a Russian flag flying next to it.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: antifa; burnettavenue; demagogicparty; falseflag; freespeech; highway101; michaelmoore; michelamaral; morganhill; nazi; naziflag; russianflag; sanjose; santaclaracounty

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1 posted on 05/04/2025 2:41:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

flags can’t hurt you. It’s a piece of fabric


2 posted on 05/04/2025 2:44:13 PM PDT by Strict9
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To: nickcarraway

Hanging up a nazi flag, should get one beaten, or a PLO flag, or a ChiCom flag.

But the goobermint should stay out of it.


3 posted on 05/04/2025 2:45:19 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: Strict9
flags can’t hurt you. It’s a piece of fabric

This story sounds fabricated.

4 posted on 05/04/2025 2:50:04 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: nickcarraway

California nazis.


5 posted on 05/04/2025 2:51:06 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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I hate California nazis.


6 posted on 05/04/2025 2:59:03 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The judges are ganging up against the American people.)
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To: clee1

Exactly.


7 posted on 05/04/2025 3:02:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: martin_fierro

Ping


8 posted on 05/04/2025 3:03:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Which party is antisemitic?


9 posted on 05/04/2025 3:07:07 PM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: nickcarraway

I’ll bet they dropped the charges because the perps were Marxist being cutesy.


10 posted on 05/04/2025 3:16:34 PM PDT by Professional ( )
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“ The person who hung the Nazi flag has not been publicly identified by police or the DAs office.”

Coulter’s Law?


11 posted on 05/04/2025 3:18:22 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable anima)
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To: nickcarraway

What the aclu wasn’t all over this?


12 posted on 05/04/2025 3:23:13 PM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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have to wonder just how a person can get so mentally warped


13 posted on 05/04/2025 3:42:23 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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You wouldn’t beat me, for any reason.


14 posted on 05/04/2025 3:44:01 PM PDT by Az Joe (uired to.)
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How about at least a charge for littering?


15 posted on 05/04/2025 3:51:26 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: nickcarraway

This guy, allegedly a Democrat, showed up at a weekly MAGA gathering and hung out a nazi flag. Dems are pathetic.


16 posted on 05/04/2025 3:52:35 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

Do you have a citation?


17 posted on 05/04/2025 3:53:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Jeff Chandler

ISWYDT


18 posted on 05/04/2025 3:54:12 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (MAGA)
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To: Professional

The charges were dropped and he was not ID’d because he is a Democrat.


19 posted on 05/04/2025 3:54:45 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: nickcarraway

The Pali flag is a lot more threatening than the Nazi flag.

When is the last time a Nazi murdered, raped, murdered babies, etc.?


20 posted on 05/04/2025 3:58:48 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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