Jun 29, 2022 5:53 p.m
- The city had a vested interest in avoiding flag unification
- Although the flag was removed before the shooting, “damage was done”
A former Roswell, Georgia police sergeant who failed to show her retaliatory free speech lawsuit for her firing for raising Confederate battle flags outside her home was wrongly dismissed, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Wednesday.
A version of the flag had been flown outside Silvia Cotriss’ home for more than a year, sometimes with her police cruiser parked nearby, the court said. A jury failed to find that her termination violated the First Amendment, although the citizen who reported the flag to Roswell’s police chief was mistaken about the squad car being parked at her home, and although Cotriss removed the flag…
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