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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Oct 17, 2021, 02:07 PM Oct 2021

'That Was Probably the Flag They Hit Me With': Officer Slams Use of 1/6 Flag at GOP Rally

A Capitol police sergeant on Saturday said that an American flag that attendees at a Virginia GOP gubernatorial candidate rally pledged their allegiance to was "probably the flag that they hit me with" during the deadly January 6 riot.

During an appearance on CNN with host Jim Acosta, Sergeant Aquilino Gonell said that pledging allegiance to a flag that was carried during the Capitol attack is a "total disgrace."

Gonell's comments came after the host of the "Take Back Virginia Rally" in Henrico County called someone who held the flag—which reportedly was at the January 6 attack—to come to the stage and asked the crowd to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

The rally was held on Wednesday to support Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin in his bid to become Virginia's next governor ahead of the November elections.




https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/that-was-probably-the-flag-they-hit-me-with-officer-slams-use-of-1-6-flag-at-gop-rally/ar-AAPDfHo
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'That Was Probably the Flag They Hit Me With': Officer Slams Use of 1/6 Flag at GOP Rally (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2021 OP
We know what they were really pledging allegiance to. 70sEraVet Oct 2021 #1
That flag needs to be captured dweller Oct 2021 #2
K&R UTUSN Oct 2021 #3
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