The complaint came in July, from a man who said he drove by a Georgia home and spotted the flag flying out front.

It was a Confederate flag, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, and a Roswell Police Department officer lived at the home.

‘‘It is very difficult to explain to my daughter that we should trust our police,’’ the man wrote in an e-mail, according to the newspaper. ‘‘But in the same sentiment if I were to ever be pulled over or some situation where my family needs the police to protect and serve, my first thought/fear is that it may be the officer proudly flying his/her Confederate flag.’’

The Journal-Constitution reported that the officer who lives in the home, Silvia Cotriss, has since been fired from her job as a police sergeant. She told the newspaper that she didn’t realize that some found the flag to be offensive, and will reportedly appeal the termination.

‘‘If I knew it offended someone, my friends, my family, I wouldn’t do it,’’ Cotriss told the Journal-Constitution, which got a copy of her case file.

Cotriss’s firing comes about a year after a shooting that left nine dead at a historic African-American church in Charleston, S.C. The accused gunman in that June 2015 massacre, Dylann Roof, had posed in photos with the Confederate flag.

It has also unfolded at a time of increased tensions between law enforcement and civilians nationwide.

Washington Post