If Air Force veteran Michelle Manhart had physically attacked, or opened fire on, the racist leftwingnut protestors at Valdosta State University over their desecration of Old Glory, I could understand this "muscular" reaction from the local town clowns. As it was, it appears to have been more than a "smidgeon" disproportionate:
After watching a group of people stomp on the American flag on Valdosta State University’s campus in a supposed protest of "white supremacy," one United States veteran decided that she couldn't sit by anymore and took matters into her own hands.
Air Force veteran Michelle Manhart walked over and picked the flag up off the ground.
That's it. She didn't attack them. She didn't scream profanities at them. She didn't abscond with the flag. She just picked it up off the ground.
That’s when all hell broke loose.
“[We’re] raising awareness of black nationalism. Where we actually come from, miseducation of America, and the destruction and genocide of our people through that flag,” one student can be heard saying.
And a hail and hearty "FU" to you as well, kiddo.
After Manhart took the flag, a fight broke out and four police officers tried to wrangle it from Manhart’s hands.
And stomp on it themselves, I'm guessing.
She was eventually handcuffed.
Did Miss Manhart do anything that merited her being tackled and cuffed? Sure doesn't look like it to me.
“If your cause is racism then find some white people and walk on them,” said Manhart. “But to walk on the flag is walking on our symbol of freedom. You have the freedom to do what you are doing because of it. I’m not fighting against them. I’m fighting against the way they are going about it.”
How they are "going about it" is part and parcel of their "cause," Miss Manhart. Into which white cops have now evidently been conscripted.
The good news? She wasn't criminally charged. The bad news? She's been banned from the Valdosta State campus, and her First Amendment rights diminished accordingly.
Exit question: Do we even want to know what the "protestors" did with Old Glory next?
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