Flying the American flag upside down is often done during times of distress or unrest. An American flag was hung upside down over El Capitan in Yosemite National Park over the weekend to protest the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flying a flag upside down is traditionally a sign of "dire distress," the United ... which are every American’s properties," Gavin Carpenter, a Yosemite maintenance mechanic and disabled ...

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 ...

“National Park Service rangers have pulled off a brilliant action in Yosemite Park on El Capitan by deploying a massive American flag upside down in the traditional sign of distress or extreme ...

The U.S. Flag Code states that the American flag should never be upside down "except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property." Once a signal of distress for ...

Pfleger announced the church would fly the American flag upside-down: traditionally a sign of distress. Organizers said the upside-down flag is a symbol that America is in a state of emergency ...