The U.S.S. For more information on this site, please read our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Ad Choices. Readers posted messages on her station’s Facebook page and to her Twitter account about how their fathers and grandfathers had been aboard the ship, she said.When she opened the package at the television station, she was shocked to find the tattered flag, which had bloodstains on it.As soon as he heard the news, Devon Reese, the vice mayor of Reno, sped to the television station. California lawmakers are pushing to enact nearly a dozen policing reform laws driven by nationwide outrage and protests after George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police. “This is just a little symbol of that.”City officials do not know who returned the flag.
Mrs. Margiott, the Reno reporter, said she had at first posted the story about the flag without her name, fearing a backlash for writing about the protests because of hostility toward the news … “As a country and a community, we’ve been having a rough couple of days,” he said, tearing up.
All Rights Reserved. “The idea that someone returned the flag just gave me a little more faith in humanity.”Demonstrators in scores of American cities have protested police brutality and the death of George Floyd while in the custody of the Minneapolis police.Many of the protests have been peaceful, but a number of police officers and protesters have been injured, and Mr. Reese said that earlier Saturday, there was a peaceful protest of about 2,500 people. In Reno, officials set the curfew Saturday after protesters broke windows at City Hall and set fires. The Reno Fire Department sent several crews to the fire reported Friday at 6:56 p.m. No answers 15 years after Hawthorne woman disappears Updated: Aug. 7, 2020 at 6:43 PM PDT
Steve Sisolak activated the state’s national guard after City Hall was damaged by protesters.
Looters were flag burning. By the early evening, there were about 200 hundred people left. Reno flag was anonymously returned with a note that said it “needed protecting.”When people broke into City Hall in Reno, Nev., this weekend during protests against police brutality, they smashed windows, set fires and took items from the building — including an American flag from a World War II Navy ship.City officials thought the flag, which had been held in a display box on the first floor of the building, might have been one of the few that were burned Saturday night.But on Tuesday, the flag reappeared with a handwritten, anonymous note attached: “Needed protecting. Mrs. Margiott later reviewed security footage and saw that the man who delivered the package looked as if he was in his 20s or 30s and seemed nervous and fidgety.She said she only cared that the flag was back with the city and the citizens of Reno.“In the grand scheme of things, Reno is a really small town,” she said, adding in reference to the vandalism and looting: “I think I could speak for most people in this community when I say that that’s not the Reno we know and love.“To have a little glimmer of hope in some really dark times really means a lot.”A World War II Flag Taken During a Reno Protest Is ReturnedA flag from a World War II battleship was anonymously returned to a reporter in Reno, Nev., on Tuesday.The flag was addressed to a local television news reporter, Kenzie Margiott, who had written a story about it. Several spray-painted the outside of the police department and threw rocks at police cars, he said.They then forced their way into City Hall, Mr. Reese said, starting fires and smashing items on the first floor of the 15-story building, including the case where the flag was held.The return of the flag was not just an emotional moment for Mr. Reese; the chief of police was also crying, he said.“If you exhale about the last several days and what the national news looks like, and you can say, ‘OK, we can get through this, too,’” Mr. Reese said.
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RIP George Floyd.”The note was addressed to a local television news reporter, Kenzie Margiott, Mrs. Margiott, the Reno reporter, said she had at first posted the story about the flag without her name, fearing a backlash for writing about the protests because of hostility toward the news media.But an hour later, after seeing reaction from readers about how important the flag was to them, she added her name. Reno, Nevada: Fires at City Hall; National Guard, curfew in place The Nevada National Guard is en route to downtown Reno, the city's police chief said, after protests …