A Michigan police officer was suspended Sunday with pay after he was seen off-duty driving a pickup truck bearing a Confederate flag around a group protesting Donald Trump’s election as president. Traverse City police Chief Jeff O’Brien announced the suspension of officer Michael Peters. "He is not working as a police officer," O'Brien told the Traverse City Record-Eagle. The Confederate battle flag is seen by many people as a symbol of hatred and intimidation of African-Americans following the U.S. Civil War and the freeing of blacks from slavery. The flag was flown from the rear bed of a pickup near a "Love Trumps Hate" rally in the city.

Source: Fox News November 14, 2016 04:52 UTC