] LA HABRA -- Antiwar protesters burned and ripped up
] flags, flowers and patriotic signs at a Sept. 11 memorial
] that residents erected on a fence along Whittier
] Boulevard days after the terrorist attacks in 2001 and
] have maintained ever since.
]
] However, although officers witnessed the vandalism
] Saturday afternoon, police did not arrest three people
] seen damaging the display because they were "exercising
] the same freedom of speech that the people who put up the
] flags were,' La Habra Police Capt. John Rees said Monday.
]
] "For this to be vandalism, there had to be an ill-will
] intent,' he said.

Antiwar protesters trash 9/11 memorial