We’re currently relitigating the debate over the American flag and whether professional athletes show disrespect for it when they kneel in protest when it’s displayed or during the national anthem. I thought we’d all kind of agreed there were more important things in our lives — professional sports are only slowly beginning to lift the shutters — but apparently this is a thing again.
However, I think both sides in the debate can agree on this: Government employees whose salary is paid with taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be using the flag as a mop.
We’re currently relitigating the debate over the American flag and whether professional athletes show disrespect for it when they kneel in protest when it’s displayed or during the national anthem. I thought we’d all kind of agreed there were more important things in our lives — professional sports are only slowly beginning to lift the shutters — but apparently this is a thing again.
However, I think both sides in the debate can agree on this: Government employees whose salary is paid with taxpayer dollars shouldn’t be using the flag as a mop.
According to the New York Post, a member of the Guardian Angels volunteer crime prevention organization encountered the two Parks Department employees on Saturday.
Jose Gonzalez said he was on patrol on the Coney Island boardwalk when he came across the men wiping down the floor of a bathroom using the American flag as a mophead.
This led, rather predictably, to a confrontation involving an elderly veteran.
The vet, Gonzalez said, told the Parks Department employee they “can’t use the flag to wipe up urine and s— from the floor.”
