Watch: Firefighters With American Flags on Their Trucks Compared to Terrorists in Rhode Island

A city official in Rhode Island has angered the Coventry Fire Department by demanding that they remove the American flag from the back of their fire trucks.

Fox news reports that Fred Gralinski of the Central Coventry Fire District “bizarrely compared it to ISIS flying its black flag while riding around in Iraq or Syria.”

“They look like a bunch of yahoos,” Gralinski said at a board meeting. “Like in the paper, like ISIS in Syria going to take over a city. I don’t think they need that big flag on the back of the truck. That’s not America to me. Those are a bunch of terrorists. So, I’m going to ask you to take the flag off that truck.”

Gralinski reportedly apologized for his comments through a spokesman after facing backlash from members of the fire department. (For more from the author of “Firefighters With American Flags on Their Trucks Compared to Terrorists in Rhode Island” please click HERE)

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