A video posted to social media shows a woman pulling down the flags of several Latin American countries outside an Oakland school in “a hostile act,” district officials said.
, opens with the woman pulling on a rope attached to a flag pole outside Havenscourt Campus in East Oakland.
The academy’s principal saw the flags had been taken down and found them nearby, knotted and crumpled up, Sasaki said. She fixed the flags and raised them. In the video, the unidentified woman threatens to burn the flags and appears to be egging witnesses on.The person recording the video asks the woman why she was taking the flags down. The woman replies with expletives and tells the person to “get out of my f—ing business.”“This is not Black Lives Matter,” the woman says. “This is Mexico. … This says Mexico. I’m taking it down.”
“CCPA’s student body is more than 75% Latino, and Latino Heritage Month is very important to the community, as it is at schools across the district,” he said Monday evening. “We have talked with the Oakland Police Department, and are working with them on this issue.”As of Monday night, the woman’s identity remains unknown.