Upside-down American flags flown outside Monrovia Public Library

IS EXPECTED TO BE THE GOP NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN WE'LL SEND IT BACK TO >> WITH A THANK YOU ON THE HEELS OF THE TRUMP UPSIDE DOWN FLAGS ARE APPEARING IN SOME PLACES AS WELL AS IN SOME SOCIAL MEDIA POSTED SYMBOLIZES A NATION IN DISTRESS. ITS ASSOCIATED WITH TRUMP SUPPORTERS AND ELECTION DENY YEARS HERE AT HOME. DOZENS OF UPSIDE DOWN FLAGS ARE FLYING OUTSIDE OF THE MONROVIA LIBRARY KTLA. JENNIFER MCGRAW IS THERE LIVE WITH MORE FOR US JENNIFER GOOD MORNING. >> FRANK GOOD MORNING HERE IN THE PARK DOZENS OF FLAGS HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN PUT UP IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY TO HONOR HEROES THAT SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES BUT TODAY NOW WE SEE THEM ALL IN FOR DID FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN AND THIS WAS NO EASY TASK. IT'S CLEAR THAT THEY HAD TO CUT THE ZIP TIES AND THEN FLIP THESE FLAGS OVER AND ALSO IT'S APPEARS TO BE A POLITICAL SIGN OF THE GUILTY VERDICT OF FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN THE HUSH MONEY CASE IN NEW YORK. THE U.S. FLAG CODE WHICH IS NOT LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT THE FLAG IS NOT TO BE INVERTED EXCEPT AS A SIGNAL OF DIRE DISTRESS AND INSTANCE OF EXTREME DANGER TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. BUT IN MORE RECENT YEARS, IT'S BECOME POLITICAL PRO PUBLIC HAVE BEEN USING UPSIDE DOWN FLAG TO DESCRIBE THE COUNTRY IN DECIDEDLY UN-AMERICAN TERMS. BUT IT'S NOT JUST REPUBLICANS BUT PROGRESSIVES ON BOTH SIDES USING THE FLAG TO SHOW MOUNTING FRUSTRATIONS IN OUR GOVERNMENT. THE INADVERTENT FLAG ALSO MAKING HEADLINES THIS MONTH INVOLVING JUSTICE SAMUEL. ALEDO RECENTLY UNDER FIRE FOR HIS INVERTED FLAG AND ANOTHER FLAG APPEAL TO HEAVEN. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO THAT WAS FLOWN OUTSIDE THE JUSTICES BEACH HOME IN NEW JERSEY LAST SUMMER. THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ALITO SAYS HE'S NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR FLYING THE FLAGS IN FACT HE WROTE MY WIFE IS FOND OF FLYING FLAGS, I'M NOT IN LETTERS TO MEMBER OF THE CONGRESS ALITO SAID HIS WIFE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR FLYING THE FLAGS, BOTH FLAGS WERE LIKE THOSE CARRIED BY PROTESTERS WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL ON JANUARY 2021 WHILE ECHOING TRUMP'S CLAIMS OF ELECTION FRAUD ALITO IS REJECTING CALLS TO STEP ASIDE FROM THE SUPREME COURT CASE INVOLVING JANUARY 6 DEFENDANTS. HE SAYS THE FLAGS DON'T MERIT HIS RECUSAL NOW BACK OUT HERE LIVE I WAS JUST SPEAKING TO THE CITY MANAGER HERE IN MONROVIA HE SAYS OF THESE FLAGS HAVE BEEN PUT UP THE VETERANS ARE GOING TO BE OUT HERE TOMORROW FOR A PICNIC SO IT'S UNCLEAR IF THEY'LL TAKE THE FLAG DOWN OR SIMPLY IF THE HAVE CREWS OUT

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Length: 2min 20sec (140 seconds)

Published: Fri May 31 2024