USS Reno WWII flag stolen from city hall during Nevada protest returned: 'Needed protecting'

Fox News ^ | June 03 2020 | Vandana Rambaran

[knighthawk]

An anonymous person returned an American flag from a World War II battleship that was stolen from the Reno City Hall in Nevada during protests seeking justice for George Floyd, according to a local news station on Tuesday.

Although the majority of protests were peaceful, a small group of demonstrators proceeded to deface the old police headquarters and loot downtown businesses. Some people were also burning an American flag, authorities said.

City officials discovered the glass display that housed the artifact from the USS Reno had been smashed and the flag – which had been donated to the city nearly 75 years ago – was gone following Saturday night's riots.

[Skywise]

If it had been a BLM that did this then it’s too bad he couldn’t come forward himself for this act of patriotism. But that probably would’ve gotten him cancelled.

[dsc]

“during protests seeking justice for George Floyd”

Really? It’s about “justice for George Floyd?”

Fox fights on the side of evil now, as much as NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, and the rest of them. Perhaps they were trustworthy once, but that is now in the past.

[Old Sarge]

a World War II battleship

From Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know...):

USS Reno (CL-96) was an updated Atlanta-class light cruiser - sometimes referred to as an "Oakland-class" - designed and built to specialize in antiaircraft warfare. The USS Reno spent her entire service life in the Pacific War, and its immediate aftermath, during 1944 through 1946.

Big difference from a "battleship"...

[alternatives?]

Our local radio station said the DC riots turned rowdy. Can’t say violent.

[Fish Speaker]

Beat me to it...I hate sloppy reporting...

[fieldmarshaldj]

What exactly is “justice” for a criminal involved in counterfeiting U.S. currency ?

[hanamizu]

I was born right after WWII in a Navy town. Everyone knew battleships were named after states, cruisers after cities, destroyers after heroes and subs after fish. And of course we knew the difference between them all. But time passes and what once used to be common knowledge 'warship≠battleship' becomes a trivia knowledge item. Sad, though that the reporter wasn't interested enough to research what USS Reno was.

[Eagles6]

At least 5 years now, except for a few opinion talkers.

OANN is the only "American" outlet.

[dsc]

“What exactly is “justice” for a criminal involved in counterfeiting U.S. currency?”

I’ll leave that to those with a judicial temperament. What I was trying to say is that this whole thing is not about Floyd. The forces of evil are using it as a pretext for another attack on the US.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yup. It’s all such a joke, though. He was worth more dead than alive to his family, a $10 mil payout so far just on the GoFundMe (and millions more from Hennepin County, MN taxpayers). Would this be Black thug privilege ? Still, I can’t believe the suckers contributing to a criminal counterfeiter, Saint George Fakemoney.