"America was never great." At Black Lives Matter Plaza on Saturday afternoon, demonstrators burned an American flag. https://bit.ly/2YZCR6L | 7News DC

Flag Burning Laws | Freedom of Speech | Symbolic Speech

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that, when it comes to burning the American flag during protests, his administration "took the freedom of speech away," even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled nearly four decades ago that flag burning is protected by the First Amendment. “We took the freedom of speech away, because that’s been through the courts, and the courts said you have freedom of speech but what has happened is when they burn the flag, it agitates and irritates crowds,” the president