Unless something is being left out if I was this man I am expecting a nice check for false arrest.
It certainly has that feel to it.
I want the whole story on this one
There has to be a hell of a lot more to it than this.
There almost certainly is. My bet is that he burned the flag in the front yard of some gay guy. Like the Klan burning a cross on a black person's yard.
Well, I can ASSUME (make ass of you and me!) it wasn’t his flag.
So, anti-Americans can burn a US flag if it is theirs, but if they take your flag off your flag pole and burn it, I hope they’d be at least charged with illegally destroying your property.
I’ll bet the young drunk burned someone else’s Gay flag. He doesn’t seem the type to have one of his own.
Note that I encourage everyone to buy or make a gay flag and burn it, as I’m not against the idea, and that would be protected political speech. Just to let the cops know they can’t go there.
It couldn’t have been his own queer flag that he torched. And since the owner of the flag is a Protected Species the flag arsonist is up for added hate crime charges.
If he had stuck to burning a stolen Confederate Battle Flag he would be hailed as hero, invited to meet Barky at the White House, and the owner of the Confederate flag would be charged with a hate crime for displaying it.
Likely, the flag belonged to someone else. Had it been HIS flag, and he burned it, no harm no foul. If it belonged to someone else, arson.