After a Florida high school football team flew a Thin Blue Line flag onto the field last week to continue honoring a student’s police officer father who had died off-duty, school administrators banned the flag from flying, following charges from some critics that the flag was “racist.”
Fletcher High School in Neptune Beach had flown the flag to honor the officer during 11 games of the 2019 season before flying it again last week when Fletcher played a game against Fleming Island. The flag was flown to honor Cpl. Andy Lavender, a former Jacksonville Beach police officer. He died in August 2019.
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