A Nazi flag has been found flying from a pole outside of a Battle Creek, Michigan elementary school. Construction workers noticed that in place of the American flag which usually hung in front of the school, a Nazi banner was flying. Thankfully, crews noticed this on a Saturday morning, so it seems that Riverside Elementary School students didn’t see it.
According to school officials, someone broke the lock on the flag pole and swapped the flag and banner at some point on Friday night. Now, Battle Creek police are investigating the incident. According to Police Chief Jim Blocker, who spoke to CNN, it’s going to be tough to figure out who hung the Nazi flag.
You might think: Fingerprints! But according to authorities, the Nazi flag had been handled by numerous people by the time it actually reached them, so that makes tracing prints quite a bit harder. Another great guess: security camera! Schools must have surveillance, no?
Generally, yes. But because of construction work, the school didn’t have any functioning video surveillance in the area at the time. As of now, any guesses as to whether this was intentional—did someone hang the Nazi flag knowing the camera was out of service, for example—is all speculation and unconfirmed. “It's enough to deserve our attention and to send a message that it's not appreciated and we'll actively go after you," Blocker stated to CNN during a phone interview.
The school is horrified. "It is disturbing that an individual would use school grounds as a platform to promote such beliefs," Lakeview School District Superintendent Blake Prewitt said in a statement, as reported by CNN. "Our story as a district is so much more than this."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/18/us/na...rnd/index.html
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