A North Logan man and his friend will not receive class-B misdemeanor citations for flag abuse, after attorneys say the charges won't stick.

Justin Jerez, 20, was told he would be cited after an incident Monday that elicited complaints about a protest he and friends mounted at a Fourth of July parade in Hyrum on Monday.

Jerez and three of his friends wrote "Children of Debt, Inheritors of War" on an American flag and displayed it upside down as they walked the parade route on a sidewalk down Hyrum's Main Street.

The demonstration, said Jerez, upset several parade spectators, including one man who confronted the group and told them he didn't like what they were doing.

A Cache County Sheriff's deputy dispatched to the scene told the four individuals to leave the city or risk being arrested for disorderly conduct.

The group left without further incident, but two days later Jerez said he received a phone call from the deputy who told him he and one of his friends could expect a court summons in the mail for a class-B misdemeanor count of abuse of a flag.

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