Georgia Businessman Ticketed and Threatened With Jail Time For Flying US Flag

Now they’re after the flag.
A Georgia businessman was ticketed and threatened with jail time for flying a flag outside his business.

12Tom Gieryic flies his American flag in the city right-of-way on Dawson road, for which a code enforcement officer cited him. (Ashley Knight)

FOX Nation reported:

A Georgia man was slapped with a ticket and threatened with jail time after he refused to remove an American flag that’s been flying outside his business for more than thirty years.

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An Albany code enforcement officer alleged that Tom Gieryic’s flag was in violation of the city’s sign ordinance. The standard size American flag was posted on a pole outside Gieryic’s automotive repair shop.

“It’s been there for 30 years,” Gieryic told Fox News. “She told me my flag was in the city’s right of way.”