'I'm not leaving it in the street': National Guardsmen retrieve remains of burned flag [Vine]

A Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner has sparked protests in several large cities across the nation, most notably New York, but that doesn’t mean that things have quieted down in Ferguson, Mo. Protesters are still facing off with the National Guard, two of whom chose to retrieve a burned American flag from the street and fold it as best they could.

David Carson is a staff photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

#Ferguson protesters burn flag, National Guard soldiers walk across St. & collect burned remnants to properly dispose pic.twitter.com/bTQkAm7LWG

— David Carson (@PDPJ) December 5, 2014

https://twitter.com/TrotAlex/status/540701282974306304

Here is correct pic of Nat Guards picking up remains of burned flag in Ferguson . Lance Dell and Eric Allison. pic.twitter.com/vIgDNEfwnU

— Joe Holleman (@STLsherpa) December 5, 2014

@PDPJ God bless our troops and our first responders!

— Incidental pony (@killerpony159) December 5, 2014

.@PDPJ Go Guard. RESPECT.

— Christopher Slater (@cturtle31) December 5, 2014