To the Editor:

I never thought I would need a surveillance camera to monitor our flagpole, but we have one now. Maybe I shouldn’t have been, but I was shocked to see that someone had torn the Blue Lives Matter flag off our flagpole on Labor Day night.

I was awakened late that night by what I thought was my neighbor rolling his garbage can to the street for next day’s pickup. What actually happened was someone wheeled our can from the curb to the base of the flagpole and used it to stand on to grab the flag and…

September 23, 2020