1 min read

Gettysburg Won’t Remove Confederate Flag From Police Patch

Associated Press0

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Gettysburg Police Department says it doesn’t intend to change a logo that includes the Confederate flag despite a Flandreau man’s calls for the insignia to be altered.

Chief Bill Wainman said Tuesday the police patch is a tribute to the history of the town, which was settled by Civil War veterans in the 1880s. He says it has nothing to do with racism.

The debate about the patch comes weeks after the shooting deaths of nine people at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that spurred a national debate about the flying of the Confederate flag.

Lynn Hart is African American and a member of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. Hart says he would like to see the divisive symbol removed and says Gettysburg is embarrassing itself.

The AP is one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, international subscribers and commercial customers. AP is neither privately owned nor government-funded; instead, as a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members, it can maintain its single-minded focus on newsgathering and its commitment to the highest standards of objective, accurate journalism.
Website http://ap.org/

Related Posts