WARNING: This story contains a photo that features profanity.
Anti-President Joe Biden flags prominently featuring profanity hanging outside a Roselle Park home have caught the attention of local code enforcement after residents complained, noting the proximity of the residence to a local school.
Borough officials began receiving complaints Friday about the display, which includes a photo of Donald Trump raising both middle fingers and the words “F--- Biden” below, said Mayor Joseph Signorello. Three of the six flags include the F-bomb. The property is close to a nearby elementary school and children regularly walk past it, he said.
Signorello said the homeowner was asked to remove the display because it goes against a borough ordinance that prohibits residents from displaying “obscene materials.”
“It’s been brought to our attention less because of the political aspect of it, but the vulgarity of it,” he said. “The real problem is, from a neighbor perspective, is it’s a block away from an elementary school. It’s in a high visibility area for children. Most of the ire was drawn from a lot of local parents.”
A map of the home shows it is around the corner and down a short, four-home block from the corner of a local elementary school’s property.
A display of anti-Joe Biden flags in Roselle Park has drawn concern from parents. The display features curse words and a picture of Donald Trump raising a middle finger.Andrea Dick
The homeowner, Andrea Dick, said she doesn’t plan to remove the flags, which she put up recently and which she considers protected under free speech. She denied there is an ordinance banning the display of obscene materials, though it can be found on the borough’s website.
Part of the borough’s ordinance, which Signorello pointed to, defines “obscene” as any material that “lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value” or depicts sexual conduct in an offensive way.
“I’m not taking them down,” Dick said. “I refuse to take them down... Today I got a phone call from code enforcement... I said nothing against you, but I’m not taking them down. I said I have a right, freedom of speech, and I’m leaving them up there.”
Signorello said if Dick does not take the obscene flags down, she could be cited. The citation carries a fine, he said.
“My code enforcement and my police department right now is checking with the borough attorneys before we make any next moves,” he said, “but we feel it is within our boundaries while respecting free speech to ask her to take down at least the vulgar signs.”
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