Trump declines request to lower flags for Capital Gazette shooting victims
 

Trump declines request to lower flags for Capital Gazette shooting victims
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President Trump declined a request to lower the American flag in memory of the five victims who died in a shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis last week, according to the publication.

Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley asked that the flags be lowered at federal government buildings, but his request was denied. Trump has ordered flags be lowered after other mass shootings.*

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