Posted on 12/01/2022 4:57:50 AM PST by real saxophonist
CU student says Pride Flag was removed, burned, and returned to home
By: Colette Bordelon
Nov 30, 2022
BOULDER, Colo. — Boulder is typically thought of as one of the most progressive cities in the entire state, but a college student said his Pride flag was vandalized overnight Tuesday, and it's not the first time it's happened.
Glacius, 20, said he moved to Boulder to attend the University of Colorado at Boulder, and also because it is such an accepting community.
“I can really be myself out here. I can really just show to the world who I really am," Glacius said. "I'm queer, and I'm here. And I'm here to just show that it's okay to be who you are."
The student chose not to use his given name in this story.
“Especially with the climate out there right now toward the LGBTQIA+ community, it's just kind of scary to throw myself out there when people are doing very violent things like this right now, such as burning my flag," Glacius said from his porch. "I've never experienced this before. It's all new to me.”
What's new for him is what happened to the Pride flag that hangs on the fence outside his front door. In August, Glacius said his cameras caught someone ripping down the flag.
Glacius installed more cameras after that and replaced the flag. But overnight Tuesday, his cameras caught the flag once again being removed.
“When I went out to go look, that's when I found the burnt flag there," Glacius said while showing the melted flag, which was tossed back onto his front porch. "You get that weird, like, adrenaline anxiety, like, wow, some people really don't want me here.”
Glacius said he even noticed a bullet on his porch.
“Even though it's just a little bullet, it's a threat. I view it as a threat. And the second violence gets involved with that, that's when it becomes a very serious matter to me. I don't want any of that here," Glacius said. “It does still show that there's hatred out there, and it really is a punch in the gut to some of us.”
Still, what happened to the Pride flag has only strengthened Glacius' resolve.
"In the end, I'm still me. I'm still going to do what I do, no matter what people think about me. And I hope my friends feel that way too," he said.
According to a statewide survey from Hate Free Colorado, Coloradans who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer are more than 1.5 times as likely as straight Coloradans to have experienced a hate crime or incident.
Glacius filed a report with the Boulder Police Department, which is investigating the incident. Police ask anyone with information that could help identify who burned the Pride flag to call their detective on the case at (303)433-4322.
Well, if you're so 'proud', why not?
Video at source.
I wonder if by not giving out his name, this is a cover for a false flag.
Almost 100%
Of course it is.
I have come to view nearly every single racial and LGBTQXYZ “attack” as a false flag until proven otherwise.
And the vast majority of these things turn out to be just that.
I am sick to death of it.
So more gay-on-gay vandalism?
He left out the Subway sandwich and the door pull. Boulder, Colorado - serious MAGA country there.
“”In the end, I’m still me. I’m still going to do what I do, no matter what people think about me. And I hope my friends feel that way too,” he said.”
Free will for sure. You have free will to serve your animal nature, although I don’t recommend that you become a slave to anything. It leads to some very bad consequences psychologically.
Hey, it’s only a flag. The leftist slime have been doing it to the country flag for years. They had better get used to it. What goes around, comes around.
Sure. And I'm sure you turned it over immediately to the "authorities."
The video does show what appears to be a 9mm cartridge. Wonder where he got it.
Another Jussie Smollett hoax.
The student chose not to use his given name in this story.
wow, some people really don't want me here.”
No, dumbass, nobody cares if you're there. They just don't want to see your stupid flag. It is only there to condition people to your lifestyle.
“But overnight Tuesday, his cameras caught the flag once again being removed.”
Funny how that’s only mentioned in passing and no video is provided.
Agreed.
They always have to be the victim.
Wah wah.... poor me.....
Even a former classmate of mine refuses to go visit her family in Florida because she thinks she and her ‘wife’ will be attacked.
SMDH...
These stories always turn out to be fake, and this one sounds extra fake.
What a drama queen!
All this for a damn flag
8~)
The second guy in the video messing with the flag is dressed similarly to the ‘victim’ in the interview in Antifa like black hoodie. And why no video of someone putting the bullet on the porch? I say hoax.
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