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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 16, 1991                   TAG: 9102160386
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MANASSAS                                LENGTH: Short

POLICE CHIEF BANS RIBBONS ON CRUISERS

While other area police departments have authorized yellow ribbons on cruisers to show support for troops in the Persian Gulf, Prince William Police Chief Charlie Deane has banned them.

"The ribbons may be seen by some as not impartial . . . as some sort of a political statement," police spokesman Barry Barnard said. "It reaches a point that you have to be careful that we don't, in law enforcement, put ourselves on one side of the political spectrum or another.

"If we are asked to respond, to say, a war protest, if we arrive with yellow ribbons on our cars . . . it could be seen as any action we're going to take is against their cause."

- Associated Press 


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