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BURNING GAY FLAG SERIES
Later, another statement from the church read, “On speaking with the police commander, I can share with you that this act of violence against our church was part of a larger series of events. He was intercepted and arrested by the Ames Police Department.” According to a statement from the church, “a 30 year old man who lives one block from our church tore down the God is Still Speaking queer pride banner from the southwest corner of our sanctuary and tried to set it on fire. The incident took place Monday evening, Jat the Ames United Church of Christ, 217 6th street. What we don’t need is to elevate every instance of stupidity to the level of terrorism.AMES – An Ames man is behind bars after he allegedly tore a gay pride flag off the wall of a church and tried to burn it. Tyresse Singleton deserved to be arrested and deserves to be charged with a series of crimes that correspond with his arson. 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. 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. If you guessed that the individual would be charged with a “hate crime,” you’d be wrong. 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. But elevating it to a hate crime takes away from actual hate crimes.
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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
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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.