By Lexi Lonas - 03/31/21 07:46 PM EDT
A police officer from northern Pennsylvania filmed a TikTok defending the Confederate flag while he was on duty, WETM 18 News reported.
Officer Brian Gossert, a Mansfield Borough Police Department officer, was live on TikTok when he began defending the Confederate flag.
“I don’t understand how it [the Confederate flag] is racist. It represents the South, just like the Union flag represents the North. No one says that the Union flag is racist, so why are we saying the Confederate flag is racist?” Gossert said.
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“So yeah, technically they fought for slavery, I guess you could say, but again, that’s been over 200 years ago. I think it’s time that people just like, get the f - over themselves. Because . if the symbolism behind that flag is still that hurtful now, then we should still hate the South,” Gossert continued.