{"id":227190,"date":"2025-09-14T22:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227190\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:23:21","slug":"fort-worth-councilman-opposes-lowering-flag-for-charlie-kirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227190\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Councilman Opposes Lowering Flag For Charlie Kirk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Internal City of Fort Worth emails obtained by The Dallas Express reveal that Fort Worth Councilman Chris Nettles, a Democrat, criticized city staff for lowering flags to half-staff after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As previously reported<\/a> by The Dallas Express, Fort Worth Democrat Councilwoman Elizabeth Beck is under fire for an Instagram story posted shortly after Kirk\u2019s assassination. DX first broke the story on its X account, and it has since been picked up nationally. Despite the backlash, which has led to a recall effort<\/a> against Beck, Nettles and fellow Democrat Councilwoman Deborah Peoples defended<\/a> her post.<\/p>\n

The emails show Nettles demanding to know why the decision was made and accusing staff of creating division.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis post on Facebook says Donald Trump ordered flags to be half-staff, where is the order? Who gave the ok?\u00a0Who informed City Council (which is the representation of the city)?,\u201d Nettles wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the same email, Nettles accused city employees of promoting hate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhoever ok this from the city, be it Mattie, Jay or any other city staff. Please know that you are sending a message of division, divisiveness and even hatred. There are so many mix emotions surrounding the shooting, his stance towards a certain class of people or even race and gender,\u201d Nettles said in an email to city staff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cMattie\u201d refers to Fort Worth Mayor, Mattie Parker. \u201cJay\u201d is Fort Worth City Manager, Jay Chapa.<\/p>\n

City staff responded that the decision was not discretionary but required<\/strong> under longstanding city policy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPresident Trump issued a Proclamation ordering that flags be lowered to half mast [sic]. City policy has always been to follow the order when issued by the President, Governor or Mayor. Staff implemented the order,\u201d the reply stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Nettles, however, rejected the explanation and suggested the city should rethink its policy of following presidential proclamations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTimes have dramatically changed,\u201d Nettles wrote, adding that he plans to raise the city\u2019s precedent of honoring presidential proclamations in an open forum.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Dallas Express reached out to Nettles for comment, but he had not responded by publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Internal City of Fort Worth emails obtained by The Dallas Express reveal that Fort Worth Councilman Chris Nettles,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-227190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115204994321732428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}