Flag becomes a symbol of hate.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: As the movement to disassociate U.S. institutions with the Confederate flag gains momentum in the United States, the debate recently reached a head during incidents in Connecticut and Florida.
A woman from Safety Harbor, Florida, was arrested for hitting her husband because he wouldn’t take down the Confederate flag in their home, reported to Bay News 9.
According to the arrest affidavit, “Peggy†Rae Carpenter kept asking her husband, Larry, to take down the flag and he refused, eventually compelling her to strike Larry in the arm, who began to bleed due to the two bracelets she was wearing at the time.
The 60-year-old was consequently charged with domestic battery.
Meanwhile, on New England, a shopper perusing merchandise at the Redwood Country Flea Market was so offended by a vendor selling Confederate and Nazi historical memorabilia, the person called 911, which led to Wallingford, Connecticut, police being dispatched to investigate.
Police Chief William Wright told WTNH that “the reason no one was arrested was because the items were being sold on private property.â€
There was a table set up with this material,†Wright said, according to Journal-Record. “It’s not criminally illegal, but obviously it offended this person. It causes some people a sense of being uncomfortable. Certainly the owner could preclude this merchandise.â€
The shopper who called the authorities told the newspaper that he was shaking and close to vomiting when he saw the Confederate flag along with helmets with swastikas, images of Hitler, and other historical Nazi items.
“It’s unfortunate that under the law people have the right to sell these things; but it doesn’t mean they should sell these things,†said Joshua Sayles, the assistant regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in Connecticut. “It’s not a crime but I would call it hate. People look at the situation in Charleston and say it’s down in the South. But this stuff is here in Connecticut,†he continued.
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