The head of the Trumbull Equity, Diversity & Inclusion task force is being asked to resign after she compared the thin blue line flag to the Confederate flag in a social media post.

Trumbull resident Cindy Penkoff, who proudly displays the thin blue line flag outside her home in support of police, says the head of the task force, Tara Figeroa is out of line.

Penkoff says she is calling for Figeroa to be removed from that position because of comments she made on social media about the flag before she assumed her position.

The Trumbull Police Union also released a statement calling for Figeroa to resign.

Figeroa asked that she not be shown due to threats made against her. She says she is not anti-police, and that this controversy has led to a "gross mischaracterization" of her and her views.

"When you denigrate that flag, you denigrate the law enforcement officers who go along with that flag," Penkoff said.

Penkoff says Figeroa's comments run so fundamentally counter to the task force's mission and to the spirit of the Trumbull community that she must be removed.

"If you are the head of an inclusion diversity committee, you don't make negative comments about any group at all. I don't care what that group is. Your job is to bring people together -- not push people away and not cause a wedge," she says.

Figeroa released the statement below:

First Selectman Vicki Tesoro says a meeting is being scheduled to address the matter.