Minnesota media consultant, right-wing bloggers question Somali flag raising at Dolal Idd protest
Blois Olson, prominent local public relations strategist, later apologizes over gas station flag-protocol fuss.
by Becky Z. Dernbach and Joey Peters January 6, 2021
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Four days after Minneapolis police killed Dolal Idd, a 23-year-old Somali American college student, in an apparent exchange of gunfire at a Holiday gas station, nearly a thousand protesters gathered to call for justice and demand answers. Images from the January 3 protests reverberated throughout the country. Many saw a community in mourning, rattled by the first police killing in the city since George Floyd’s death in May.
But some media commentators saw something else: a blue banner with a white star—the Somali flag—flying above the gas station.
https://sahanjournal.com/uproar-over-somali-flag/holiday-gas-station-somali-flag-blois-olson-taken-land-dolal-idd-protest/
