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A pro-police flag flutters facing counter-demonstrators during a rally in Boston, Mass., June 27, 2020.
A teacher in Washington state was reportedly forced to remove a pro-police flag from her middle school classroom after administrators deemed it a "political message,"
despite allowing messages in support of Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ pride flags to remain posted in the school.
While the Marysville Middle School teacher wished to remain anonymous, her brother, Chris Sutherland, told
The Jason Rantz Show that administrators told his sister
it is "controversial" to display a "Thin Blue Line" flag in her classroom and that it "makes kids and staff feel unsafe."
The teacher had hung the flag in support of Sutherland, who is a former police officer. She surrounded it with photos of her brother, who was a resource officer during the
Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting in 2014, in which a 15-year-old gunman shot and killed four students and critically wounded a fifth before killing himself.
The teacher said the controversy began when
an assistant principal at the school issued a warning about her "Thin Blue Line" laptop sticker.
The assistant principal said that there were "concerns about how students, families, and community members might interpret what the image is intending to communicate and that this interpretation may cause a disruption to the learning environment," according to Rantz, who reviewed an HR document on the incident.
However, she was not forced to remove the sticker and later added the flag to her classroom.
Another assistant principal demanded that the teacher take the flag down.
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