The Rev. Michael Pfleger says someone tore down an American flag he was flying upside down outside his church to protest violence.Flying the flag upside down if I'm correct is often a sign of distress. If children being murdered in our inner cities isn't a distressful situation I don't know what is. Although flying the nation's flag upside down shouldn't be done lightly and frivolously.
But the activist priest quickly replaced it this afternoon -- and vowed to keep doing so if people continue taking down the flags.
"There's more attention being given to the flag than to children dying," Pfleger said. "What do we care about children dying?"
Pfleger said he decided to fly the flag upside down outside St. Sabina Church on the South Side as a "distress signal" to raise awareness of how many children are being killed by gun violence.
Pfleger referred to Wednesday's fatal shooting of 16-year-old Ramone Morris on the West Side and the slaying of 15-year-old Alex Arellano, who was found beaten, shot and burned over the weekend.
You can read more at Tribune Breaking News.
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