With files from CTV News Toronto’s Abby Neufeld. “As a learning community, we are committed to increasing our individual and collective skills and understanding to clearly confront racist acts and to ensure our school environment is safe and aligns with PDSB’s values of educating our learners through an anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens,” he added.Īnyone with information is asked to contact police at (905) 453-2121, ext. Before stealing and burning a Gay Pride flag from a lesbian couples home in Omaha, NE, Cameron Mayfield walked passed several houses with other flags. “I am truly sorry for the harm caused by this incident,” Mcleod wrote. In a letter to CPSS families, principal Tyler Mcleod said that the involved students sent the video to fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ students. The identities of the youths will not be released as they are protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.īoth of the teens have been referred to the Youth Pre-Charge Diversion Program.Īfter the video surfaced online, the Peel District School Board (PDSB) also launched an investigation. On June 17, police arrested two 16-year-old male youths from Mississauga in connection with the incident. Police said the flag burning is considered a hate-motivated incident. It is alleged that the involved individuals are students at Cawthra Park Secondary School (CPSS) in Mississauga. On June 8, police received a report of a video showing a rainbow Pride flag burning on the ground while people were laughing in the background. So burning a rainbow flag is “hate speech”, burning an American flag is “freedom of speech”! I see.Two teenage boys from Mississauga have been arrested after a video of a burning Pride flag surfaced on social media, Peel police say. Wow he got more years than murderers get in the Uk. “Wow he got more years than murderers get in the Uk. Then, he would have been praised, statues dedicated
Then, he would have been praised, statues dedicated,” quipped another Twitter user. “He should have burned the American flag. Why does the left cheer when the American flag is burned? No one goes to jail for that, but they do for burning an activist movement's flag? “Why does the left cheer when the American flag is burned?” wondered Shannon Ford. “No one goes to jail for that, but they do for burning an activist movement's flag?” But when the property is a flag, 16 years is ridiculously excessive, tweeted Larry Sanger. Of course, stealing and destroying property is very wrong. This is going to be infamously controversial, or should be.
FISA brings down the house ���� December 19, 2019 Man sentenced to 16 years for stealing and burning an LGBTQ flag. Would stealing an American flag and setting it on fire earn anyone prison time? The man charged with tearing down an LGBTQ flag from an Ames church has been found guilty in a jury trial.Adolfo Martinez was found guilty Wednesday of a hate crime, third-degree harassment, and.
“Would stealing an American flag and setting it on fire earn anyone prison time?” asked one user. Police said Adolfo Martinez stole a pride banner hanging at Ames United Church of Christ and burned it outside the Dangerous Curves.
Many responding to the news on Twitter thought the punishment was disproportionate to the crime. Story County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said in June that “hate crime” charges were added because Martinez “is suspected of criminal mischief against someone’s property because of ‘what it represents as far as sexual orientation.’” Then, using lighter fluid, he burned it early on Joutside a strip club called Dangerous Curves Gentleman’s Club.
MAN ARRESTED FOR BURNING GAY FLAG PLUS
NEVADA, Iowa, Decem( LifeSiteNews) - A man who was arrested this summer for stealing and then lighting a church’s LGBT rainbow “pride” flag on fire has been sentenced to prison for 16 years.Īdolfo Martinez, 30, of Ames, Iowa was found guilty last month of having committed a “hate crime” – arson – plus reckless use of explosives or fire.Īccording to the Des Moines Register, Martinez stole the flag, which had been hanging at Ames United Church of Christ.