Recent Examples on the WebMonday, May 27 Where: Wood National Cemetery, flagpole / memorial area, 5000 W. National Ave.—Cathy Kozlowicz, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2024 After razing the City College encampment, NYPD officials, including Sheppard and Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry, were seen on video taking down a Palestinian flag from the campus flagpole and tossing it away before replacing it with an American flag.—New York Daily News, Orange County Register, 1 May 2024 After police arrived, officers lowered a Palestinian flag atop the City College flagpole, balled it up and tossed it to the ground before raising an American flag.—Stefanie Dazio, Ethan Swope, Jake Offenhartz, and Joseph B. Frederick, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2024 The Arabic words recited by observant Muslims reverberated off the historic academic buildings as Palestinian flags tied to flagpoles fluttered in the wind.—Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2024 In 2019, the Trump administration began rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to display Pride flags on flagpoles during LGBTQ Pride Month.—Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 22 Mar. 2024 Blinken's predecessor Mike Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, ordered that only the U.S. flag fly from embassy flagpoles.—CBS News, 23 Mar. 2024 Also this week, a Florida man who used a flagpole to attack officers who were trying to defend the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to four years in prison.—Alanna Durkin Richer The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2023 But other items that were stolen were not nearly of the same caliber: a nondescript Chinese metal vase; a fairly ordinary bronze eagle from atop a flagpole; and five minor sketches by Degas.—Tom Mashberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
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