The board said the flag was immediately replaced. This is the first year schools with the TLDSB raised the Progress Pride flag in celebration of Pride month. It adds a five-coloured chevron to the original Pride Flag to represent all racialized people and transgender identity to be more inclusive and progressive. In addition to spending a decade and a half in. The Progress Pride Flag was created in 2018. Adolfo Martinez of Ames was sentenced Wednesday to a whopping 15 years in prison for the hate crime of arson, according to The Associated Press. Cameron Mayfield is facing a felony charge for burning a neighbor's gay pride flag last year.He would have faced a misdemeanor, but prosecutors allege his actions are a hate crime, which raises. However, the OPP said it would be up to the Crown Attorney to decide what consequences could follow. Their identities are protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The OPP said it had identified the students whose ages range between 14 and 16. Meanwhile, provincial police said they believe the incident may have happened on Thursday last week. Shawn Forth, with Muskoka Pride, reacted to the video stating, "We are deeply upset and shocked that a Progress Pride flag from a Huntsville elementary school was burned by some young individuals." The school said it recently reported another act of vandalism at the playground but said it isn't clear if the mischief is related, adding the flag is in the same vicinity as the playground, and both events involved fires. However, because the flag burned by Martinez was an LGBT symbol, and because Martinez himself said this was his motivation for setting fire to it, prosecutors added a hate crime enhancement to the. Fifteen of the 16 years were just for the hate crime. Hate crime laws are out of control, tweeted Joel Kurtinitis, a contributor to The Federalist. For context, the average sentence for rape is under ten years.
IS BURNING GAY FLAG A HATE CRIME PLUS
An act of injustice against the two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual plus (2SLGBTQIA+) community is an act of injustice against us all." This guy just got 16 years in prison for burning the flag of a state-protected group. The board went on to add, "This incident has caused harm in our community. A homophobe who wanted to ‘punish’ gays has been jailed for 16 years for burning a LGBT pride flag a tougher sentence than for rape. In a statement issued Wednesday, the Trillium Lakes District School Board (TLDSB) called the six-second video an "appalling and hateful act." The school board said the incident that happened at Huntsville Public School was "hate-motivated vandalism." The reasons would be either they hate their nation, or something happened in the nation which they didn’t like and showed their anger by burning of the flag. It is called because why will anyone burn theirs’s or someone else nation’s flag without a valid reason.
Ontario Provincial Police and the Trillium Lakes District School Board are investigating after a video was posted to social media of a group of teens removing a Progress Pride flag from a Huntsville, Ont. Burning a nation’s flag is called a hate crime the reasons are here.