Black Lives Matter sign can keep flying in Bella Collina communityThe family that disagreed with the management of Bella Collina wanting to remove their sign in front of their home supporting the Black Lives Matter, can keep flying the banner. The south Lake County subdivision’s property owners association has dropped a complaint filed as part of a court case that required the couple to get approval to put up any sign. In a letter to the family's lawyers, the association’s attorney Patrick C. Howell said the community group is “sympathetic with the message your clients want to convey” and offered to let the couple move their 13-by-four-foot lawn sign to a more prominent location — inside Bella Collina’s front gate — to be “proudly displayed” until July 5. But the family rejected the decision doubting the managers' intentions and shared that: “If they want to express their opinion, let them make their own.” After the community’s lawyer made the judge aware of the new sign — and noting it was erected without consent, the family submitted a letter seeking permission. In the request, the family explained that the sign was intended to show the family’s support for peaceful protesters, opposition to racism and to help the couple teach their three daughters a “civics lesson on the importance of American values, civil rights, social change, and the importance of the right to participate and protest.” The letter said the sign was put up temporarily to coincide with spontaneous protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man, in Minneapolis. George Floyd died on May 25, during an arrest for passing a counterfeit $20 bill. Begging for his life and saying that he can't breath, while a police officer's knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, George Floyd died, sparking one of the biggest movement for protecting the rights and stopping the police brutality on the Afro American people in the US. Source:https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-black-lives-matter-bella-collina-20200616-ap6xdmfaxzg4fbrihifi3hci7u-story.html Share your opinion:
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