By Michael Levenson A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress — off the side of El Capitan, a towering rock formation in Yosemite ...

But this year’s visitors witnessed more than firefall on February 22. They also saw an upside-down American flag, which Yosemite employees reportedly hung over the side of El Capitan to protest ...

Anand K Sankaran captured footage, and told media-gathering website Storyful the flag was hung upside-down ... which are every American’s properties," Gavin Carpenter, a Yosemite maintenance ...