4:50 Owners of a Maggie Valley motel are getting death threats over a sign disparaging police officers and now a “Back the Blue” rally is scheduled in response. This follows heated and confrontational demonstrations at a pair of Black Lives Matter marches in this small Appalachian tourist community last summer. There’s a strip of Soco Road in Maggie Valley lined with quaint mom-and-pop motels built in the 1960s. Usually the signs out front say things like, “Welcome to our valley” or “Kids eat free,” but last week one of them had a different message – ACAB. The acronym Our Place Inn uses stands for “All Cops Are Bastards,” a saying that originated in the 1940s in the UK but was adopted last summer by some demonstrators calling for racial justice and police reform after the May 25 murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.