Nancy good morning.

Dee and I were at the rally both yesterday and last week. To answer your question the actual charges on all four were “resisting a public officer and violation of an executive order”.

Personally I’d like to know how stepping on the sidewalk is a violation of the executive order because that is what they were arrested for.

Last week, there were signs up to stay off the sidewalk, those signs were not there yesterday. Also one of the four that was arrested was charged with “damaging property” he had been pulling on the Northeast gate of the executive mansion which Dee and I both saw while we were there but from what I saw I doubt that it was broken due to that.

When I spotted him doing that I pointed it out to Dee and said,  “we don’t need to be doing stuff like that”. As I was about to walk over and tell him to stop someone else got there before me and pulled him away. it was well over an hour later that he was arrested for that while standing on the sidewalk.

Nowhere in the governor’s executive order does it say that you cannot walk on the sidewalk, I’m sure these charges will all be tossed out and they were just making an example of them.

The whole reason that this started was because there were no flags flying in front of the executive Mansion. Dee and I also noticed there were no flags last week.

I walked up to the sidewalk and spoke to one of the police officers, I asked him nicely, calmly, and quietly can you tell me why the flags are not up on the flagpole? He refused to answer me, no matter what I asked him he just stood there, nothing was ever said by any of these police officers other than “do not step on the sidewalk” . At one point I finally said to him “I guess you’re not allowed to answer”  and he smirked at me.

Aside from the one idiot who pulled on the gates we left downtown cleaner than when we arrived, it was peaceful and there were no threats or anything other than everyone that I saw thanking the police for being there and for their service.

Also, the reason the flags were not being flown (so I found out later) is because the Gov. said they were damaged during protests in the past. What he didn’t bother to say was that ALL those protests were by either, Black Lives Matter, Antifa and Illegals, NEVER any conservative group. ALL the other State buildings had their flags up.

Gadi