An Ohio high school has reportedly suspended two football players from the team after they flew a flag honoring first responders during the 9/11 game last week, despite the school warning them not to fly it.
“When the Little Miami High School football team took the field Friday, Sept. 11, a couple of players carried alongside the American flag a Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags,” Local 12/WKRC-TV reports. “The problem is, the boys had asked the school permission prior to the game and they were denied and told if they defied the order, there would be consequences.”
Brady Williams and Jared Bentley flew the two flags to honor the fallen firefighters and police officers on the 19th anniversary of the radical Islamic terrorist attack in New York City on September 11, 2001. Williams' father is a police officer and Bentley's father is a firefighter.
Two Little Miami football players pay the price for civil disobedience. They were told not to carry onto the field thin blue line and thin red line flags at their 9/11 game. They did anyway. The school has now suspended them from the team indefinitely. #ThinBlueLine #ThinRedLine pic.twitter.com/19y9GAvaxr
— David Winter (@DavidWinterTV) September 14, 2020
“I was all for it,” Bentley said. “Because my dad is a firefighter, and if it had been him killed on 9/11, I would have wanted someone to do it for him.”
“I don’t care what my consequences are,” Williams added. “As long as my message gets across, I’ll be happy.”
However, Superintendent Greg Power argued that flying those flags represented a political point of view.
“We can’t have students who decide to do something anyway after they’ve been told that they shouldn’t be doing it,” Power said. “We did not want to place ourselves in a circumstance where another family might want a different flag to come out of the tunnel, one that may be [one that] many other families may not agree with from a political perspective.”
Williams denied the flags being a political statement though.“No. Not at all. I was just doing it to honor the people that lost their lives 19 years ago," he said.
Little Miami High School gave the following statement to FOX19:
Little Miami Local Schools is saddened to see this story take such a negative turn. While we understand these students’ desire show their support of our first responders, they did not obtain permission from district officials. Administrators must act when students break the rules.
The Patriot Night program to memorialize the victims of 9/11 was already part of our pre-game ceremonies on Friday and the American flag is the first thing through the tunnel every Friday night. Little Miami enjoys an outstanding relationship with local first police and fire agencies and a Little Miami school resource officer is also a high school football coach.
Little Miami always has – and always will – support our first responders, our veterans, and all who sacrifice to maintain our freedoms.
What a sad time we live in when we cannot even show support for our first responders without it turning into a political affiliation.
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