California high school board meeting attendees clash over 'Thin Blue Line' flag

A California high school board meeting got heated Wednesday over the school's football team displaying a "Thin Blue Line" flag during a game.

"First and foremost, people have written to us and said that the Blue Line Flag does not belong on any football field, any sports field, on any field, which is not true, not right," said Joe Messina, a member of the school board, during the meeting. "There is a constitutional right to be able to wear those things at those events." Haley Chi-Sing is a Fox News Digital production assistant. You can reach her at @haleychising on Twitter.

Messina condemned those who called students donning the "Thin Blue Line" flag White supremacists, saying, "I think it's despicable that we keep calling them white supremacists and other things." 

Messina said he viewed the present situation as a possible learning experience for those involved.