Confederate flag comes down in Danville as city government reacts to flag vote (VA)
Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2015 10:42 pm
BY DENICE THIBODEAU
Danville Register & Bee
... Just after 9 p.m. as a steady rain pelted the city, a Danville Utilities bucket truck made its way onto the museum grounds. With a Danville police officer in the bucket — and to the jeers of the people gathered along Main Street for almost an hour waiting — the Third National flag of the Confederacy was cut down from the flagpole where it had flown for 20 years.
Back at the Municipal Building, people on both sides of the issue spoke passionately to Danville City Council about the flag, some during the public comment portion of the meeting and others later, when the flag ordinance limiting the flying of flags on city-owned property — to the national, state, city and MIA/POW flags — came up for a vote. Since the city owns the Sutherlin Mansion, the ordinance meant removal of the Third National Confederate flag on the grounds.
The flag ordinance passed 7-2, with only Councilmen Fred Shanks and Buddy Rawley voting against it. After the vote, Shanks asked what the plan for removing the flag was; Mayor Sherman Saunders said that would be the city manager’s responsibility ...
Shanks offered a substitute motion to kill the flag ordinance and replace it with a plan to sell the Sutherlin Mansion; Rawley was the only council member that agreed with him so the motion failed ...
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