Roswell Ga Police Officer Fired For Confederate Flag In Yard

WSB-TV


A Roswell pastor said a police officer was fired on Thursday after the Roswell Police chief received a complaint that a Confederate flag was flying outside the officer’s house where an official police vehicle was parked in the driveway.

Roswell Police Chief Rusty Grant told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday that he could not comment on any specifics of the case, including the very nature of the case. He would only confirm that a Roswell officer had been fired on Thursday.

Here’s what led to the complaint. Last Sunday, in the wake of police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the massacre of five Dallas police officers, Pastor Lee Jenkins of Eagle’s Nest Church in Roswell, invited Grant and his department to worship with them. Grant, who has made it a point to visit predominantly African American churches since the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., accepted the invitation, he said.

“For me the takeaway from Ferguson was that a lot of African Americans don’t trust police officers and don’t see them as I did when I was growing up,” Grant said. “I honestly didn’t know that before. I was ignorant of that. Everyone needs to work to make things better.”