Vice mayor: ‘I allowed my emotions to get the better of me’
Post not meant to impugn police, Perschbacher says
Mt. Pleasant’s vice mayor said she removed a controversial Facebook post after drawing heat, saying that the meaning of the post was taken out of context and that it was a mistake.
Amy Perschbacher posted an image of the Thin Blue Line flag, with the blue line pulled back to reveal a black swastika surrounded by a white circle on a red background, to her Facebook page.
The post was immediately controversial, with it being copied and pasted and shared dozens of times. Perschbacher said she took the post down.
“I was at no time disrespecting law enforcement or military,”
she said by email. “I was referring to the attempt coup where individuals, carrying flags of blue line, confederate, and Nazi symbols, attacked our nation’s capital and law enforcement, killing one officer.
“To those individuals the blue line flag is nothing. They use it to state they are ‘Law and Order’ but in reality they are individuals who do not respect not one person who thinks or looks differently from them; whether in uniform or not.”
She also said removed the post.
“I have removed this post
from my Facebook and I do hope that you can forgive my careless posting,” she said. “I allowed my emotions to get the better of me.”
Late Monday afternoon, the Mt. Pleasant City Commission posted that Perschbacher’s post was her own post.
“The City of Mt. Pleasant does not support the recent Facebook post from Amy Perschbacher, Vice Mayor, to her personal Facebook page,” it said. “The post was an expression as a private citizen; not as a member of the Mt. Pleasant City Commission. Ms. Perschbacher believes the meaning of her post was interpreted differently than intended.”