Carla Caccavale, daughter of slain officer, tells 'Fox & Friends' about her fight to honor her father after a NY school district banned the sweatshirt for staff.
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Brian next guest was twenty weeks
old when her father, New York,
transit detective, was shot and
killed in nineteen seventy six
last year, the Nypd honored
George, by naming one of their k
9s after him, and paid tribute to
gorges, daughter and sweat
shirts, that featured a thin blue
line patch.
Now the sweatshirt is banned in
a local school district. All
because the superintendent
believes the thin blue line is
political
here with the latest on her
fight to honor her police, Dad
Carla
thanks so much for joining us.
When did you realize this was
going to be a problem?
Well, they started asking
staff to remove their blue line
masks and there were a number of
staff members who wore these
sweat shirts on Fridays. There is
a blue line on the arm
at first. I thought it was just
going to be the mask,
but then it carried over to the
sweat shirts
Brian, is this the sweatshirt.
This is the sweatshirt which
you can see. It has vales name
and badge number the k, nine patch.
It has my dads name, and then it
was the thin blue line.
This patch is an extra just for
my sweatshirt. Yes,
I was twenty days old when my father
was killed.
Brian, my fault,
let me just read you what the
public school said in response
to the fact that they dont want
you to wear this anymore,
its actually staff that
cant wear it.
They banned the staff from
wearing it
Brian, so the kids can
the kids can do whatever they
want,
the kids? Can the staff maybe
banned
so have you noticed? Have they
so have you noticed? Have they
let other things go?
So I got a lot of pause on
this and one member of the media
said. The story has gone global,
because world sees the hypocrisy
here.
The doctor allowed staff wear a
shirt that says vote across it
with the names of minorities
killed in police incidents and
on the back it had the fist
allowed up to and including
election day while she bans the
thing blue line, flag,
thats the problem here it
wasnt until after the election
that she sent an email out after
she realized her decision was
not fairly balanced and now it
would all be banned.
So thats the problem here,
Brian Carla, who was the first
one to express displeasure with
this,
were kids complaining.
Well, you know the staffers
who I have spoken to said that
when they were called in, they
were told that the flag was a
sign of white supremacy.
However, the communication that
went out from the district said
that children expressed concern,
and if that is the case, this
would have been a teachable
moment. Instead of dividing our
town,
we are in a very, very small
town that now is incredibly
divided over
this. There was an opportunity
here to bridge instead of
burning down the bridge, to help
this
Brian wait a second,
so law enforcement is white,
supremacy
that again, of course, that
was never an official statement,
but I have had more than one
staffer come to me and tell me
thats what they were told when
they were brought in about the
mask
Brian. What do you plan on doing
about this Carla?
Well, we are continuing our
fight.
We would is, unlike to see a more
formal apology to say that you
know well now both are banned.
You should be happy.
Isnt that enough
to make such a broad sweeping
decision and make such a huge
misstep when you are running the
district and in charge of
educating an entire district is
incredible
and as educators, they should be
able to look at all four symbols
on this sweatshirt in the
context in which they were
intended.
This sweatshirt was created over
a year ago
as a symbol to bring my family
and the dog family together, and
people saw the sweatshirt
they loved it.
They said hey. Can we get one?
We created one hundred and fifty originally
labor of love door to door,
deliveries and dont nateed all
to Nypd, detectives, widows and
children and retired police
canine foundation. Since this
broke,
we have gotten over four hundred orders
and I literally couldnt keep
up
Brian wow.
I imagine its going to only
increase
Carla. I think you are on the
right side of things.
Not only do I think that its
also a tribute to your dad.
On top of that, I think you
should be able to wear things
that show support of law
enforcement without that being
controversial,
just is, unlike some people. Look
at the flag and think thats
controversial, which it blows my
mind that we are at this point,
especially in this state
final thought.
The staff was allowed to wear
one and not the other
and its hard for me to explain
to my children used to seeing
the staff wear it on Friday. Why
a sweatshirt, honoring their
grandfather is no longer
allowed
Brian, its the districts
problem,
its not yours,
you are doing the right thing.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-17.