Anti-Biden flag will stay in place

KOKOMO, Ind. (WISH) — I-Team 8 has learned a Kokomo antheral tin support his anti-Joe Biden emblem flying connected the broadside of his house. The woody betwixt Brandon Adams and the metropolis ends a arguable case I-Team 8 first covered successful October. 

The emblem has 1 connection connected it immoderate whitethorn find offensive. After I-Team 8’s archetypal communicative aired, Adams recovered retired others successful Kokomo with the aforesaid emblem had taken theirs down. But helium dug successful his heals for a combat against the metropolis and won. 

“All I wanted was an acknowledgment that you tried to interruption my rights, admit that you can’t effort and interruption anyone else’s rights, due to the fact that this is protected political free speech,” Adams said. 

Allowing Adams to alert that emblem volition outgo the metropolis of Kokomo a mates 1000 dollars, arsenic the metropolis is paying each of Adams’ ineligible fees. Both parties came to an statement that says the metropolis lacks the powerfulness to punish Adams oregon immoderate different idiosyncratic for the contented of the connection connected the flag, so long arsenic determination is nary showing of an intent to incite disobedience oregon disruption, which was never Adams’ intention. 

“I’m a large instrumentality of my freedoms, and I felt they were being trampled on. The only mode [I] tin combat ‘the man’ per se, is by hanging a emblem letting radical cognize [I am] protesting,” Adams said. 

When Adams bought the flag, it stayed wrong for astir a month. He recovered a spot for the emblem connected the broadside of his location aft a bid of events, specified arsenic the vaccine mandates, and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. 

“When I saw (I-Team-8’s) communicative saying 4 different radical had taken theirs down, I said, ‘Well, that means 4 different radical didn’t cognize their rights oregon didn’t person the wealth to prosecute a lawyer and combat back,’ truthful I wasn’t going to backmost down astatine that point,” Adams said.

The emblem caught the attraction of neighbors who complained to the city, claiming the connection connected the emblem was violative and successful wide show of younger children. Adams says determination is simply a bigger connection down the flag. 

“You got thing to accidental and it’s your opinion, I don’t attraction what it is, accidental it. That’s what this state was founded on: radical getting together, throwing their antithetic ideas, arguing astir them, coming to an understanding,” Adams said.  

After I-Team 8’s archetypal story, a radical of radical from crossed the authorities gathered astatine Adams’ location for a rally. He has nary volition of taking the emblem down immoderate clip soon, and hopes those who removed their flags volition bring them backmost out.  

Adams told I-Team 8 helium hopes his triumph volition promote others careless of governmental enactment to prosecute successful and support governmental speech, and to instrumentality a basal for what they judge in.