Video surveillance footage showed three men attacking trans flags at the historic site during Pride month.
Officers with the New York Police Department arrested a Colorado man on Tuesday in connection with vandalizing multiple Pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument during Pride Month in June.
Patrick Murphy, 25, was charged with a hate crime and criminal mischief for the incident, which occurred just after 3 a.m. on Thursday, June 15, at the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park. Police say Murphy and two other men were captured on video removing and destroying several transgender flags that were part of a display featuring 60 different Pride flags hanging on a fence at the monument. Part of the fence was also destroyed in the attack.
NYPD officials told the Patch the two other men seen in the video have not been arrested.
It was the second time in three months that Pride flags were vandalized in Manhattan. In May, a man was arrested and charged with burglary, trespassing, and multiple hate crime counts for an incident at Buceo 95’s eatery on April 15. Police say Fred Innocent, 41, entered the eatery around 1 a.m., defecated on a Pride flag in front of patrons, then used a second Pride flag to wipe clean his backside.
Patch reported Innocent lives in supported housing for New York residents suffering from “serious mental illness” issues.
Christopher Park where the attack occurred is across the street from the location of the famed Stonewall Inn and the site of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The Stonewall Inn and Christopher Park were designated national monuments in 2016.
Based on your participation so far in this thread, it’s not like you hadn’t made it perfectly clear.
Sure, correcting extremists automatically means I want a group of people dead
Running interference for a group that wants people to not exist automatically means you’re defending phobic assholes.
“If you’re not with me you’re against me” fucking mentality
Now you’re getting it. Almost like we’re judged by the company we keep or something.
What? I was just saying that not being 100% agreeing with someone doesn’t mean being a total enemy of said person
I didn’t say you wanted them dead, just that you’re happy about the vandalism.
But now I’m pretty sure you do, since you’ve volunteered the information.
“volunteered the information” dude, shutting up an exaggerating dude isn’t “being happy about vandalism”
No one was talking about anyone wanting them dead until you got all weirdly and specifically defensive about something no one said.
https://lemmy.world/comment/3015464
Oh, ok. So you’re going to hold me to someone else’s words.
You were the one joining the conversation after the comment
How dare I say how happy you are with vandalism, based on your participation in this thread thus far. I notice you haven’t contradicted me on that. Just got offended at something I didn’t say, but you’ve removed all doubt on that one at this point as well.
EDIT: Typo.