It is wonderful that Barre City made room for the Black Lives Matter flag. Yet placing both the BLM and Thin Blue Line flags together would make a bigger statement: unity. Their needs are the same: To be treated with dignity, respect and valued as human beings.

Meg Mulligan

Barre Town

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