Center Valley Man’s Confederate Flag Stolen, Police Say

A Center Valley man’s confederate flag was stolen in North Whitehall Township last month, Pennsylvania State Police at Bethlehem said Friday in a news release.

According to the release, the flag was on a pole attached to 21-year-old Gregory Vincent’s vehicle.

Police said it was taken sometime between 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 18 and 1 a.m. Sunday, July 19 while the vehicle was parked in the 2700 block of Willow Street.

The incident is being investigated as a theft from a motor vehicle.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call state police at Bethlehem at 610-861-2026.

According to an NBC News story published in July that highlighted a flag theft in Manatee County, Florida, a viral social media campaign called the #NoFlagginChallenge was encouraging people to remove Confederate flags from private property whenever and wherever they see them.

The flying of the Confederate flag on both public and private property became a subject of intense national debate this summer following an allegedly racially-motivated shooting by a white man in a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.