Flagged down: Activists arrested in row over protest flag, allege abuse by Buncombe deputy

After knocking on the door, the couple answered it and, after being shown the statute, said they complied and took the flag down. Scarborough then asked for their identification.
“The flag covered our whole front porch; he comes up with this printout about the law and tells us that we can’t attach things to the flag, that we’re desecrating it,” Deborah Kuhn said. “We tell him we’re not meaning to desecrate it — all we had was a picture of [President] Bush with ‘out now’ on it and a note saying this was not a sign of distress or disrespect. We did this because the country is in distress and we don’t know what to do.”
Then, she said, Scarborough “started talking arrest, so we took the flag down. He kept wanting to see our ID. We refused. We said, ‘Why should we show you our ID — are you arresting us?’; so we walked back into the house and closed the door.”
There, the accounts diverge. According to Deborah Kuhn, Scarborough “tried to force the door, but we got it closed and locked it with the deadbolt. He then kicked it, punched the glass out, unlocked our door and came after us.”
The sheriff’s office report states that “the man [Mark Kuhn] refused to identify himself and slammed the door on the officer’s hand, breaking the glass pane out of the door and cutting the officer’s hand.”
However, the Kuhns’ account is backed up by Jimmy Stevenson, who was working with Ace Hardwood Floors nearby and asserts that he saw Scarborough break down the door.

Isn't it lovely that we can count our "public servants" these days to display thuggish, criminal behavior....this is the way they do business these days...to protect and serve...what a joke. This type of abuse is becoming routine in communities across our nation. When did ordinary Americans consent to being treated like criminals for walking peacefully down a public street?..."your papers please". When did we become such a spineless society that it is perfectly acceptable to most of us that the police act like Hitler's storm troopers, kicking down doors and using extreme violence to control tax-paying citizens? How long will it be before they are at your door?...Oh, that's right...one only needs to worry if they have something to hide...they don't drag innocent, taxpaying citizens away in the dead of night do they...Not in the land of the free. We live in a fascist police state these days. When will the sheeple of this country demand that the state respect the rule of law that they purport to represent?