Posted on 06/20/2023 9:33:05 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Dozens of LGBTQ+ pride flags were damaged and ripped down at the Stonewall National Monument over the weekend, the third such bout of vandalism at the LGBTQ+ landmark during this Pride month, police said.
The latest occurrence happened Sunday, after others on June 9 and last Thursday. No arrests have been made in any of the incidents, and it’s unclear whether they were connected. The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
On Sunday, officers were called around 8 a.m. and found about 33 pride flags broken and tossed to the ground, police said.
Park volunteer Steven Menendez told New York’s Fox 5 News that, in all, 68 flags — nearly a quarter of those displayed — were damaged in some way. …
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Are you sure it wasn’t 30 times? Story is lacking...
Flags are often permitted to be burned, pissed on, stepped on. So they shouldn’t feel any different that those who cringe when they lack respect for Ole Glory. It’s a FREEDOM of EXPRESSION thing.
I guess not everybody is proud of sexual deviants and perversion...
Stop shoving fag flags in my face
I thought this was acceptable behavior. The Supreme Court ruled it is free speech to burn the American Flag so it must be free speech to pull this flag down.
Gay Sex flags
Wait - there were 272 flags on display? Gosh, I wonder why people objected...
In NYC you can steal anything.
It has to be your own flag to be legal to burn it. But my, how the left goes crazy when their opponents Star doing the same things they’ve been doing for years.
Whoever did this is facing more time than Hunter
Respect Old Glory. Old Glory Hole, not so much.
It was not vandalism, it was the exercise of free speech.
Just like burning the US flag is on the left.
It’s national monument status needs to be revoked early in 2025. To fix America we need to remove symbols of evil. Faggots, perverts and freaks need to eliminated from positions of power.
That comes nowhere near the number of U.S. flags that have been burned, pissed on, trampled on etc. at the same place. The fags need to lighten up and do what we Americans have to do when our flag is “dissed” and destroyed. Get a replacement flag.
Too bad, so sad.
The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
Fools on a fool’s errand.
A few years ago people tore down statues and flags and we were told that was legitimate protesting.
So I don’t care.
They should have burned them, all of them
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