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We Can't Afford Public Libraries But Check Out This Sick NYPD Media Production Celebrating the American Flag
https://hellgatenyc.com/america-flag-adams-daughtyIt's a rich text: In the photograph that forms the video's backdrop, two cops stand, if not literally draped in Old Glory, at least close enough to her that some of her semiotic fairy dust is bound to rub off on them. (One of the cops, Daughtry himself, is regrettably photographed mid-blink in such a way as to look like he fell asleep at a high school house party and is about to be Sharpied by people he believed up until now to be his friends.
But maybe the flag in the picture isn't sufficient to drive the point home? No problem—Daughtry added a second, bigger flag "in post," as they say in the extremely talented, publicly funded NYPD media industry.
To remove the possibility of any remaining confusion about his message here, Daughtry also threw in an actual camo-clad troop, saluting, stolidly, semper fidelis, repeatedly, out into infinity, to the top of his video. This soldier's valor, we are given to understand, is akin to the valor of the police, including the, again, unfortunately blinking Daughtry himself, in their brave push to slam a bunch of protesters heads into the asphalt. "I see you," the soldier seems to say to Daughtry with his never-flagging salute. "We are the same. When the monument to the brave heroes of the Battle of City College is inevitably erected on the Washington Mall next to the Korean War Veterans Memorial, our deathless courage will be celebrated side by side."
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People have already been raising questions about whether this flag photo-op, staged for the NYPD's in-house media propaganda organ at public expense at the very same time that actual reporters were being cleared out, was a good idea, financially or symbolically. Was it worth it? Is this how we want our police department spending their time and resources? The answer, of course, is an unequivocal yes.
But maybe the flag in the picture isn't sufficient to drive the point home? No problem—Daughtry added a second, bigger flag "in post," as they say in the extremely talented, publicly funded NYPD media industry.
To remove the possibility of any remaining confusion about his message here, Daughtry also threw in an actual camo-clad troop, saluting, stolidly, semper fidelis, repeatedly, out into infinity, to the top of his video. This soldier's valor, we are given to understand, is akin to the valor of the police, including the, again, unfortunately blinking Daughtry himself, in their brave push to slam a bunch of protesters heads into the asphalt. "I see you," the soldier seems to say to Daughtry with his never-flagging salute. "We are the same. When the monument to the brave heroes of the Battle of City College is inevitably erected on the Washington Mall next to the Korean War Veterans Memorial, our deathless courage will be celebrated side by side."
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People have already been raising questions about whether this flag photo-op, staged for the NYPD's in-house media propaganda organ at public expense at the very same time that actual reporters were being cleared out, was a good idea, financially or symbolically. Was it worth it? Is this how we want our police department spending their time and resources? The answer, of course, is an unequivocal yes.
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You should put this silliness up in the Lounge! 
