United States and POW\/MIA flags were hoisted and hung upside down at three separate sites in southern Brooklyn Friday, infuriating locals who blamed the disrespect on anti-American, far-left policies being pushed by New York pols.<\/p>\n
The city Parks Department confirmed it sent crews Friday to fix the improperly-flying flags at\u00a0John J. Carty Park and the Fort Hamilton Triangle in Bay Ridge, and Bath Beach Park in Bensonhurst. Carty Park is \u2013 next door to the Fort Hamilton Army base.<\/a><\/p>\n Hanging the American flag upside down is considered a distress signal under the U.S. flag code, but it\u2019s also widely used as a stunt to show disrespect for the U.S. and its government.<\/p>\n United States and POW\/MIA flags were spotted hung upside down at three separate sites in southern Brooklyn Friday \u2013 including this one at John J. Carty Park in Bay Ridge near the Fort Hamilton Army Base. Obtained by the New York Post<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m honestly shocked this happened in Bay Ridge,’\u201d said Michael Ragusa, a southern\u00a0Brooklyn GOP operative<\/a> and city correction officer.<\/p>\n \u201cJust a few years ago, it was one of the last solid Republican neighborhoods left in Brooklyn. Now, it\u2019s clear that the same un-American behavior spreading across the country is taking root right here \u2014 and New York City politicians are helping fuel it.\u201d<\/p>\n Ragusa ripped Democratic Councilman Justin Brannan,<\/a> who represents Bay Ridge, for joking on X that state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar was behind the\u00a0flag fiasco.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt shows he\u2019s not serious \u2014 about his job, his constituents, or this country,\u201d Ragusa said.<\/p>\n The flags at John J. Carty Park in Bay Ridge were fixed and flown correctly later Friday. New York Post<\/p>\n The Parks Department said it alerted regional parks managers in Brooklyn to be on the lookout for similar incidents, but declined to say whether it had leads on who disrespected Old Glory.<\/p>\n Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn) joked that state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar was behind the flag fiasco. Stephen Yang<\/p>\n However, two patrons at Carty Park said they saw teenage boys Thursday pulling the flags down by a rope attached to the flag pole \u2013 and then moving them around \u2013 but they said they didn\u2019t stay around long enough to watch them turned upside down.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s disrespectful because a lot of vets gave their lives for this nation,\u201d said John Meister, 29, who was at the park Friday with his two young children.<\/p>\n Republican Michael Ragusa said Brannan\u2019s comment \u201cshows he\u2019s not serious\u2014about his job, his constituents, or this country.\u201d <\/p>\n Both Brannan, who is term-limited and running for NYC comptroller, and Brooklyn Republican Party Chairman Richie Barsamian took credit for calling the Parks Department and demanding the flags be properly displayed after fielding complaints from residents.<\/p>\n Brooklyn Republican Party Chairman Richie Barsamian said he called the Parks Department to demand action after fielding calls for constituents upset that the flags were being flown upside down at Carty Park. Brannan said he made a similar demand. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post<\/p>\n Barsamian, who is running for Brannan\u2019s council seat, called the pol\u2019s joke about Kassar \u201cterribly inappropriate\u201d \u2014 and likely a reference to a flag-raising event Kassar is part of each Memorial Day in Bay Ridge.<\/p>\n Brannan through a spokesperson insisted he respects the American flag, adding it \u201cbelongs to all of us \u2013 not any one political party.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNobody should be messing with a flag like that,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s disrespectful to all who fought and died upholding our values.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States and POW\/MIA flags were hoisted and hung upside down at three separate sites in southern Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5307,5308,5309,1121,5310,5311,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5312,80,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-3991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-american-flag","10":"tag-bay-ridge","11":"tag-bensonhurst","12":"tag-brooklyn","13":"tag-city-council","14":"tag-fort-hamilton","15":"tag-metro","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-parks","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-us-news","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114724566804476744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","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=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}