![burning the gay pride flag is.a.hate crime burning the gay pride flag is.a.hate crime](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/549/cpsprodpb/1187C/production/_110240817_captu23424re.jpg)
I won't put another one out because I don't know what they might do," Tuttle told WTOC over the phone.ĭue to a family emergency, Tuttle could not appear on camera to tell her story Tuesday night, but Lyons Police Chief Wesley Walker said he has assured Tuttle her safety, and has promised extra patrols if she asks for them. Adolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames last month was found guilty of a hate crime a class D felony third-degree harassment and reckless. The rainbow was also symbolic of God’s promise to Noah that he would never again destroy the world by. As Robert Heinlein predicted long ago, these are the crazy years: An Iowa man was sentenced to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a church LGBTQ flag in June. The rainbow is not exclusive to the LGBTQ community. That’s not the same thing as just burning a flag during a march or whatever. "I don't know if they targeted me or if they wanted to send a message about gay people, but I had to take extra security risks with my home because I don't know why anyone would burn the flag. If burning a pride flag is consider a hate crime because it is a criminal attack against a protected class of people, then burning the American flag should be a hate crime too. He didn’t buy a gay pride flag and burn it, he stole it from someone, lit it on fire outside of an establishment, and admitted he did it as an act against teh gheys he stole it from. She said police told her someone had to use a chemical to light the flag on fire. Police responded and are investigating the case as a hate crime. Burning someone elses flag is criminal and will get you jailed, whether that flag stands for the LGBT people, America, Canada, Mexico, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Brazil, Nazi Germany, South Africa, Spain, the Confederate States from the Civil War era, the Confederacy of Ind. On May 4, Smith came home and found Tuttle's flag had been burnt, and a piece of it was on the ground. Published Jat 6:09am Recently, in South Carolina, a woman reported to police that her rainbow flag had been removed from her front porch by a person or persons unknown, laid across the windshield of her car, doused with an accelerant, and set on fire. In Brooklyn, a pro-Hitler message was scrawled on a poster outside a Jewish children’s museum whose mission is to fight anti-Semitism. JJad1 In Staten Island, the phrase Synagogue of Satan was spray painted on a wall outside of a Jewish school. She saidTuttle has always been quiet and respectful and Smith supported her when Tuttle decided to fly the flag in her front yard to show her support of gay rights. Swastikas and Burning Pride Flags: Hate Crimes Spike in N.Y. Smith said she has known Jennifer Tuttle for three years since Smith moved next door.