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Stephen Lynch: “I went over and said, I need to have that [American] flag.”

Featuring: Stephen Lynch, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 8th Congressional District

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Congressman Lynch explains arrests

Published | Video Starts at 01:00

So at one point, as I'm walking across, one of the young fellows pulled out a American flag out of the backpack. And nothing good was going to happen at that point. So I went over and said, I need to have that [American] flag. And then about six of them said, no, you don't. And so we get into it and it wasn't much of a fight. It was really like a pile up. (01:00)

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Asserts that Stephen Lynch attempted to retrieve an American flag from Iranian students during a protest.

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