We have to get vehicle stickers in Mt Prospect each year or we can get a ticket (I've yet to get one in the 9 years I've lived there).
This was the 2019 vehicle sticker design released this week. This is the MP Police Dept. symbol over a picture of our downtown. Once this was released, all hell broke loose.
People were protesting and threatening lawsuits, so the village caved and recalled original sticker and is now offering the sticker below.
https://www.mountprospect.org/Home/Components/News/News/7427/1042
I don't understand why we let the lunatic left fringe "win" in these situations.
This was the 2019 vehicle sticker design released this week. This is the MP Police Dept. symbol over a picture of our downtown. Once this was released, all hell broke loose.
Facing public backlash over a new vehicle sticker that critics say features imagery co-opted by some white nationalist groups, Mount Prospect officials announced Wednesday night they will order a redesign.
Officials said the sticker, which went on sale Feb. 1, was intended as a tribute to local law enforcement. It features a police badge superimposed over an image of a village water tower and downtown streetscape. The badge includes police beat numbers, the state of Illinois with a star in Mount Prospect's location, and an American flag with alternating black and white stripes and one blue stripe.
That flag initially was created to represent police -- the Thin Blue Line -- and has been used by Blue Lives Matter organizations, a pro-law enforcement movement created in response to Black Lives Matter.
But it also has popped up in white nationalist imagery and events, including the violent August 2017 marches in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The first sticker drew immediate criticism via email over the weekend, and the complaints continued when the village board met Tuesday. Among the residents objecting was Joseph Plata, a former participant in Mount Prospect's Citizens Police Academy.
"They have understood that to be a white nationalist flag," he said. "You are doing a disservice to Mount Prospect residents and yourselves."
People were protesting and threatening lawsuits, so the village caved and recalled original sticker and is now offering the sticker below.
https://www.mountprospect.org/Home/Components/News/News/7427/1042
Some in the community have found the thin blue lined flag to be racially divisive. The decision to produce a newly designed vehicle sticker addresses those concerns and acknowledges the fact that some residents stated they would feel uncomfortable placing the sticker on their vehicle.
I don't understand why we let the lunatic left fringe "win" in these situations.