Quincy City Hall fails to honor slain Dallas police officers?

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Quincy City Hall inexplicably fails to honor slain Dallas police officers?

Quincy’s City Hall has failed to honor the recently slain Dallas cops by flying its flags flying at half-staff.

Just about every else around Quincy flags were either lowered to half-staff out of respect to the five Dallas police officers killed last Thursday – or were already still at half-staff out of respect to other prior recent senseless mass slayings. 

At City Hall, however, flags were nowhere to be seen in front of City Hall, much less at half-staff.

Flags at half-staff around the Q
A Quincy Quarry News photo

The reason for no flags flying in front of City Hall: its flag poles are gone.

City Hall flag poles down and out of service
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

They were recently removed to accommodate the latest round of construction in and around City Hall as well as its pending probably at least third temporary landscaping and thus concurrent latest sodding of taxpayers.

Exactly when, however, Mayor Koch might actually secure the at last count $20 million needed to complete his plans for building a $30 million acre and maybe a half park in front of City Hall is currently unknown, let alone merely but generally projected.

While one can only reasonable assume that the flag poles shortcomings and thus a whole new manner of shortcoming by the Koch Maladministration was likely due to yet another case of poor planning, who only knows for certain as the Maladministration surely will never tell. 

At least not the truth.

Quincy Police honor fallen Dallas police officers
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Even so, how hard would it be to install a temporary poll with twenty feet or so of three or four inch steel pipe and a few bags of concrete?

Alternatively, even less difficult would have been to hang the Stars and Strips upside down over the entrance to the glass City Hall Annex as hanging the flag upside down is an officially accepted sign of distress.

After all, with mass slayings appearing to only be increasing this year as well as also seemingly weekly occurrences at this point, such surely qualifies as national distress.

Quincy Public Schools teach our children well
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Then again, as Quincy Mayor Koch took considerable heat over his refusing to honor a perfectly reasonable request to honor the 49 people slaughtered in Orlando last month, perhaps there is now a new policy at City Hall.

For example, perhaps now 50 dead is the threshold required for an official honoring.

Quincy Quarry considered reaching to City Hall for comment about this half-staffed as well as latest Q-up, but figured that City Hall itself was probably also half-staffed on a Friday summertime afternoon.

That and as all of the Quarry staff have already fertilized their yards for this growing season, why bother?

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