"We have a lot of people that are part of the LGBTQ community, and it's hard to see other people's property being destroyed for having different beliefs from someone else's," said Benson. She says they don't see many possible hate crimes in Kaysville. "So, this is going to be investigated as a hate crime."īenson says the note had several Bible scriptures condemning the LGBTQ community, as well as other derogatory terms. Burning the rainbow flag means that you hate the LGBTQXYZ (trying to be inclusive here) community. The best reason that I have heard, Max answered before me. "With the note that was left behind, it was very clear that there was some discrimination going on for the LGBTQ community," said Kaysville officer Lexi Benson. Answer (1 of 7): There are many reasons for this, none of them make especially good sense. An Ames man was sentenced Wednesday to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a churchs LGBTQ flag in June. Pride flag burning turns into possible hate crime Iowa man sentenced to 16 years for setting LGBTQ flag on fire. It was originally a simple criminal mischief call for responding officers but things quickly changed. A man was convicted of burning a rainbow flag in Iowa and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. It’s potentially a hate crime, so it sickens me.
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Thursday to reports of the flag being cut from a homeowner's flagpole and set on fire in the street. Two high school students in Utah have been suspended from football team for Pride flag burning incident. Kaysville police were called to a home on the west side of the city around 4:45 a.m. A judge has convicted an Omaha man of a hate crime for stealing a lesbian couple’s gay pride flag, setting it on fire and waving it in front of their house.
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Court records list him as a habitual offender, allowing him to be sentenced to. He faced a maximum of five years in prison for the hate crime and arson charge and a maximum of a year and month for the other two charges, according to Iowa sentencing guidelines. KAYSVILLE - On the second day of Pride Month, police are investigating a possible hate crime after a rainbow pride flag supporting the LGBTQ community was burned and a derogatory note left behind. 15 years for burning a gay pride flagThe penalty DOES NOT fit the crime.