Anti-Police Message Proves Divisive In Maggie Valley - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR News

Owners of a Maggie Valley motel are getting death threats over a sign disparaging police officers and now a "Back the Blue" rally is scheduled in response. This follows heated and confrontational demonstrations at a pair of Black Lives Matter marches in this small Appalachian tourist community last summer. There's a strip of Soco Road in Maggie Valley lined with quaint mom-and-pop motels built in the 1960s. Usually the signs out front say things like, "Welcome to our valley" or "Kids eat free,"

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