[dighton]

However, although officers witnessed the vandalism Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people seen damaging the display because they were "exercising the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday.

"For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

Idiots.

La Habra Police Department

[Khepera]

"The Police Department is responsible for assisting in the protection of life and property through the enforcement of laws and regulation of assigned non-criminal matters."

Seems they have trashed their mission statement.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

GMTA ;-).

[floriduh voter]

Your post clarified that this was CA, not Fla. When I was much younger, my Dad used to travel Whittier to get to his Ward Cleaver type job. California USED to be like Leave it to Beaver; seriesly. I was a Valley Girl once and still talk like one even though a Fla. transplant.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

"For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will intent,' he said.

The Police Department is responsible for assisting in the protection of life and property through the enforcement of laws and regulation of assigned non-criminal matters. In addition to the traditional functions of a police agency

Gee! this is from their police page the first words of the first paragraph!

La Habra Police Department

Idiots is right!