What we don’t need is to elevate every instance of stupidity to the level of terrorism.
#GAY FLAG BURN SERIES#
Tyresse Singleton deserved to be arrested and deserves to be charged with a series of crimes that correspond with his arson. This symbol combo has triggered a lot of rage and feelings of social isolation in social media for over two weeks of late Feb 2019. This act of hate is repugnant to our values of equality and inclusion, and we will not stand by and allow these cowardly acts to continue in New York.”Īgain, to be clear, I am thankful that the New York City Police have done their job and taken an idiot vandal off the streets. So that symbol combo was such a strong trigger that it turned hordes of people to blame Apple and the rest of emoji designer companies for allegedly making an anti gay emoji.
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It sure wouldn’t have earned this statement from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who, according to NBC News, said of the burning of the pride flags: “I am appalled by the burning of yet another pride flag outside an LGBTQ bar in Harlem. And there’s an almost 100% chance that burning a Betsy Ross flag that doesn’t belong to him would earn him the support and adulation of leftist heroes like Kamala Harris and AOC. In that scenario, though, there’s a better chance that the person would earn a fat contract to help Nike sell their shoes made by slave labor. Never mind that the arsonist most likely would have been motivated by a hatred for you and your patriotism. Adolfo Martinez of Ames, Iowa was sentenced Wednesday for the hate crime of. flags across the nation, a previously convicted Iowa man was sentenced to 16 years in prison after burning a LGBT pride flag. While leftists routinely go unpunished after torching and destroying U.S. If you guessed that the individual would be charged with a “hate crime,” you’d be wrong. Previously Convicted Felon Gets 16 Years After Burning LGBT Flag. But, ask yourself, what do you think someone would be charged with if they burned the Betsy Ross flag proudly waving from your front porch? And I get that political correctness requires the authorities to treat certain forms of vandalism as extra heinous. I get that we live in overly-sensitive times where every single action requires being ramped up to an earth-shattering level of tragedy. I’m sorry, but a few torched flags are not equal to someone taking a brick to the face. Years ago, a gay friend of mine was a victim of gay-bashing. He was sentenced on Wednesday to 16 years behind bars. Martinez admitted to burning the flag and was found guilty last month. He had also threatened to burn down the club. But elevating it to a hate crime takes away from actual hate crimes. Martinez later burned the purloined flag, doused with lighter fluid, outside the Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club, which had actually been kicked him out earlier that day.
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Look, arrest the idiot and throw the book at him. To be more specific, the arrest was announced by the NYC Police Hate Crimes Task Force’s Twitter page.ĪRRESTED!! Thank you to calls from the community to and the work of the Detectives in Hate Crime Task Force, this individual has been arrested and charged for both incidents of flag burning at #stophate /mGZ5hwtzio The New York City Police Department broke the news on Twitter that they had arrested Singleton for burning three gay pride flags flown outside of the Alibi Lounge, a gay bar in Harlem.