Authorities are starting to crack down on people illegally hanging flags, signs, banners and other items—regardless of the content of their messaging—on highway overpasses in South Valley, according to a local California Highway Patrol captain.
The heightened enforcement plan is the CHP’s response to a March 21 incident in which a suspect hung a Nazi flag on the Burnett Avenue overpass in north Morgan Hill.
Prior to that incident, for several years a group of area residents have gathered every Friday on the same overpass expressing their support for President Donald Trump and the “MAGA” movement, often attaching or affixing American and political flags on the railing overlooking Highway 101…