NAACP wants Confederate flag removed from AL troopers' cruisers

[struggle4progress]

Posted: Jul 13, 2015 9:18 PM EDT
Updated: Jul 13, 2015 9:36 PM EDT
By Tiani Jones

The next time you see an Alabama State Trooper, take a close look at their cruisers and a patch they wear on their uniform.

You can find a Confederate flag on every trooper vehicle. You'll also find the flag on a patch that every uniformed Trooper wears.

The Huntsville chapter of the NAACP says it time for it to go, and they plan on taking their fight to Montgomery ...

"The time is right, and I just think it needs to be," said the Reverend Robert L. Shanklin. "We need to do a clean sweep. The state and local government, anywhere that that's located" ...

http://www.waff.com/story/29539399/naacp-wants-confederate-flag-removed-from-al-troopers-cruisers

[arcane1]

1. That should be a time-traveling no-brainer. n/t

[struggle4progress]

2. Yup

... when the marchers, led by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman John Lewis and Southern Christian Leadership Conference chief field lieutenant Hosea Williams, walked out of Selma and first started their climb, they could not see the bridge’s end. Only when they reached the crest of the bridge could they finally see what lay in front of them: 150 armed policemen and mercenary segregationists, gathered at bridge’s end, strapping gas masks on over helmets that bore the Confederate flag, mounting horses, and hefting billy clubs against open palms ...
How the Design of a Selma Bridge Became a Metaphor for the Civil Rights Movement
By Connor Towne O’€™Neill
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/03/06/selma_anniversary_how_the_edmund_pettus_bridge_design_influenced_the_bloody.html

[Man from Pickens]

3. maybe they're trying to comply with Truth-in-Advertising laws

then again, if they were, every cop car would be painted with a swastika

[gratuitous]

4. Yup, you're right

We're not done, fans of the confederacy. We're coming after each and every publicly-funded display of that nonsense, and taking them out. Keep your stupid flags and stickers and caps, but if my tax dollars are paying for it, it's coming off.

[Telcontar]

5. Live in Alabama do you?

[gratuitous]

6. Don't have to

Like state patrols in every state, the Alabama State Patrol receives federal money to run their operations. That's your tax dollars, my tax dollars, everyone's tax dollars being spent on those little traitor badges. Enough. That war has been fought, it's over. Take the symbols of the vanquished off public property.