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"I had to share this with the public. Notice what I will be putting on all Childress Police patrol units." -Chief Adrian Garcia

Atheists, ‘Go fly a kite,’ says Texas police chief

September 30, 2015

By Kelly Ledbetter, Christian Examiner

CHILDRESS, Texas (Christian Examiner) – Childress Police Chief Adrian Garcia has a way with words: efficient and direct.

So yesterday when he wrote a response to the Freedom from Religion Foundation letter he received about police vehicles bearing the words, “In God We Trust,” Garcia needed to use only four words — “Go fly a kite.”

“After carefully reading your letter I must deny your request in the removal of our Nations motto from our patrol units, and ask that you and the Freedom From Religion Foundation ‘go fly a kite.'” This was his entire one-sentence response.

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