Over the last month, the US flag has been spotted flying upside down outside the State Department, and now during firefall at ...

One post stated, "Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ...

An inverted American flag, which was displayed at Yosemite National Park in February 2025, is a historic symbol of dire distress.

Employees of Yosemite National Park hung an upside-down flag on El Capitan to protest the Trump administration's firing of about 1,000 park service employees. The group of protesters said in a ...

The aforementioned Flag Code rules that the US flag should never be displayed upside down, “Except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.” ...

The city of Boulder removed an American flag that was hung upside down from the 2nd flatiron on Friday afternoon. An ...

Flying a flag upside down is traditionally a sign of "dire distress," the United States Flag Code states. The symbol of protest was done by park staffers, media outlets report. The practice dates ...

The U.S. Flag Code states that the American flag should never be upside down "except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property." Once a signal of distress for ...