Posted on 03/31/2024 11:55:51 AM PDT by Robwin
Fire Department brass ordered an East Village ladder company to remove its “red line” American flag honoring the squad’s six brothers killed on 9/11 – after a neighborhood resident complained it was “fascist” and a local lefty pol questioned whether it was a “politically charged symbol.”
The shocking order came March 22 after a man claiming he was a staffer for Democratic Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera confronted firefighters at Ladder Co. 11, sources said.
The man pedaled up to the East 2nd Street firehouse on a bicycle and told firefighters he worked for Rivera and that the councilwoman’s office “complained” to the FDNY three days earlier about the flag – which features a red stripe in tribute of firefighters injured or killed in the line of duty.
He called it a “fascist symbol” and demanded to know why it was still up, sources said.
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Your missing the point. If you read the comments then you will see that no one knows what is going on.
Exactly! Great points!
Agreed I suggest a well swing fire axe upside the header better still take her photo & put it on fliers with photos o the firefighters from that station. Then start posting them in every shop ,grocery store,Street light pole& do it by the thousandsOf make this fool want to curl up & die!
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