ADL whines about a picture of 3 Percenters flag at St. Louis County officer's house

ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Before Jan. 6, a man who drove by St. Louis County Officer Michael Coletti’s house said he would have rolled his eyes if he noticed the black Three Percenters flag flapping from the officer’s flagpole.

He knew the FBI had linked the Three Percenters to a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

Surely, a police officer would know that, he would have thought.

Then, the FBI linked the group to the Capitol attack.

The man who took the picture noticed the flag there Jan. 6.

Surely, the officer will take it down now, he thought.

Instead, it kept flapping.

The officer's squad car sat in his driveway not far away.

So, the man snapped a few pictures of it and sent it to the police department to lodge a complaint.

He also sent it to his college roommate, an ATF agent.

He asked me not to use his name or anything that could identify him because he is fearful of retaliation for speaking out.

“He’s saying he’s for insurrection, ‘I’m for what happened at the Capitol,’” he said. “I don’t know what else to think.

“It’s like someone flying an al-Qaeda flag the day after 9/11. I saw so many county police cars over there while the flag was up, you start to think it must be OK in that culture. I don’t want to live in a world where I’ve got militia men enforcing the law.”

Coletti declined my request for an interview to understand why he flew the flag.