UNC student who defended American flag from campus mob ‘honored to give back to the nation’ [Video]

A University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student felt “honored to give back to the nation” while defending an American flag on the quad that protesters were trying to take down on Tuesday.

“Yesterday, my fraternity brother [Guillermo Estrada] and I were photographed holding up the American flag in the Quad of UNC-Chapel Hill during the protests. Since then, these images have spread, receiving media coverage nationwide,” Chapel Hill student Alex Jones said in a Wednesday post on X. “Both myself, my fraternity brother, and the others who protected the flag with us have received many messages of support. For this, I am truly humbled.”

Anti-Israel agitators on Tuesday morning initially replaced the American flag — which had been flying at half-mast after four Charlotte officers were killed in the line of duty Monday — with a Palestinian flag before UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts stepped in with law enforcement officers to return the American flag.

When activists, some of whom were not …