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Via AJC:
A Roswell police sergeant who was fired from her job this month for flying the Confederate battle flag in front of her house is appealing her termination and said Tuesday she had no idea the flag was controversial.
In an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, former police sergeant Silvia Cotriss said she had been flying the battle flag below the American flag in front of her Woodstock house for more than a year with no complaints from neighbors or passersby. So she was surprised the week of July 11, when detectives with the department’s internal affairs division notified her that she was being investigated for conduct unbecoming an officer on or off duty.
“If I knew it offended someone, my friends, my family, I wouldn’t do it,” Cotriss told the AJC. “Police officers have to adjust a lot of things in our lives, and for 20 years my whole life has been about making change and being held to a higher standard. We take an oath to help and protect people, so we can’t have a private life that’s really bad.”
Roswell Police Chief Rusty Grant declined Tuesday to comment on the case.
“We don’t comment on personnel issues,” Grant said. “The (personnel) file stands as it is.”
At least one First Amendment attorney, however, said the firing could be a case of overreach in reaction to recent police shootings of African-Americans and massacres of police in Texas and Louisiana.
Cotriss’ case file, obtained by the AJC, outlines the case of the 53-year-old, 20-year veteran of the Roswell Police Department. Cotriss rose through the ranks in the suburban force of 200 employees. For years she received commendations for her work from civilians, peers and supervisors, for everything from helping a man with dementia get home to his wife, to helping someone whose car battery had died.
HT: Law Officer